Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn't know her folklore) gave unwitting confirmation of disaster. "There's no reply...
Last week Londoners were reading How to Win Fortune, by Lord Beaverbrook, who hadn't a shilling at 20, and at 30 had ?1,000,000. The best advice he could give was to shun Monte Carlo, and to go to work on one's industry, judgment and health. Sample Beaverisms...
Django Reinhardt was sure everyone must have heard of him. Hadn't jazz critics like France's Hugues Panassié called him Europe's leading jazz artist and the world's greatest jazz guitarist? Django was so certain that he was famous in the U.S. that he left his guitar in France: U.S. guitar manufacturers would give him guitars and pay him for playing them. Last week, before he could go on stage in Cleveland's Public Music Hall, he had to go out and borrow a guitar...
...hadn't said a word." Eliot told the CRIMSON last night, "when Rankin cried 'clear the room' and 'call the guard...
Then a part-time county constable from Moulinette, who hadn't made a big arrest in 20 years, heard noises in the empty house next door. The police surrounded the house, yelled, "Come out!" Lama sheepishly came out, bummed a cigaret and said he couldn't have committed the murders because he was in Montreal that day. As Chief Hawkshaw clapped Lama in jail, the Chief sighed: "I'm too old for this sort of thing...