Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's most austere since Herbert Hoover's, was greeted on his 77th birthday by a chorus of reporters singing a lusty "Happy birthday, dear Henry!" Responded the shy, dignified Secretary of War: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very grateful. After that, everything seems drab." Asked to guess the date of V-day, he said: "Well, I hope I live long enough to see V-day. Further than that the prophet sayeth...
...race is any man's guess, with the odds possibly on the Tech side. The two Cornell squads are scheduled to arrive at 9:15 o'clock tonight and will be housed by Tech, official sponsors of the meet. They will leave tomorrow night following the race...
...Reed welcomed the fight. He stumped the state, rolling up his sleeves, tearing off his tie, then his collar, as he denounced the League. His arguments struck home. Reporting the campaign, the Kansas City Star's Roy Roberts overheard the remark of a Reed convert: "Well, I guess Jim's right. If there are going to be any furriners in this League of Nations, we'd better stay out." When the returns were in, Jim Reed...
...invisible leprechaun who speaks thick Brooklynese; 3) Gus the Ghost, an ectoplasmic intellectual who ghostwrites O'Malley's autobiography when O'Malley runs for Congress. There is also a talking dog, Gorgon ("Didn't know I could do it. ... Never tried it before, I guess...
...home." Wodehouse said he was released from prison camp "mainly because I had reached the age of 60," then arranged for the talks describing life in the camps. "I suppose it sounds idiotic," he declared, "but it never occurred to me that it would be held against me. ... I guess all authors must be half-witted...