Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west is based on the word "can't." "Prohibition can't be enforced" is their chief stock in trade. If, even in its present state of partial enforcement, it is better that what it displaced, why not say frankly that it has done a great deal of good, but hadn't accomplished all that was expected of it. If that is not true, why are the wets so vociferous in proclaiming that they do not want the saloon back? If it is true, why not admit it frankly and then see what is next to be done...
...Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, hazarded on the occasion of his 70th birthday last month, that "he might not have been discovered if he hadn't looked like Groucho Marx...
Philatelist Hind. No, I really hadn't time, but I have here the 1d British Guiana, for which I paid over £7,000. Even His Majesty the King of Great Britain personally congratulated me upon acquiring it.* Would you like...
...Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here was one with whom he could laugh, play, tumble, tease, poetize, and only once was there anything between Suzanne and him like what Ewald, jealous, was bold enough to insinuate. Wolf was a fighter, too: he promptly challenged Ewald but parents suppressed...
...note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...