Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gilbert lived on for eleven years, and all the wit that had once gone to paper ran to tongue. An actor who gave a dreadful performance was greeted with the Gilbertian accolade: "My dear fellow! Good isn't the word!" When the suffragettes chained themselves to the railings in Downing Street and cried "Votes for women!", Gilbert threatened to chain himself to the Maternity Hospital and cry "Babes...
...world through war or accepting the fact that we will have to live with communist countries. I think we will have to find a modus operendi between the United States and the Soviet Union. We should not try to change the internal government of these communist countries--it isn't our business to do this. There is damn little we can do about relations but it is not too early to start adapting our feelings to accepting Russia...
...isn't most of the stuff arranged ahead of time?" I asked...
...isn't a tune by Bizet...
...what they want from Sears' vast supplies. They run their own show-as long as they are getting results. The general can quickly tell when they aren't; each store turns in a monthly box score. As one top aide explained: "The general learned that wet-nursing isn't what develops merchants-and merchants are what he wants in his stores...