Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know it's unkind to strip the illusions from a million or more worshippers of a radio star...
...this part of the country, when someone jumps into a gap in the conversation with this remark: "I heard a most extraordinary story the other day"-anyone may interrupt with "Stop right there! I know what you are going to tell us. A friend of yours, or someone's sister, or your aunt's cousin, picked up in her car a woman who was walking wearily along the street. She got into the back seat and after a silence announced 'Someone will die in this car today.' After the driver had recovered a little, she went...
...reach. The gipsy said, 'Why do you do that when you have only 18 francs in your bag?' The woman had exactly that sum. Then the gipsy told each of the other passengers how much he or she had, down to the last sou. 'Since you know so much,' one passenger asked, 'tell us when Hitler will die.' 'On December second,' the gipsy said, and got out at the next stop...
...connection with incidents like this many alumni have wanted to know why there is not closer supervision of oarsmen. Bock thinks it's great that people are interested in this sort of thing, but he emphasizes that there is a good deal of supervision anyway...
Concerned with the "average" drinker rather than dipsomaniacs (whose drinking is effect rather than cause), Authors Smith & Helwig, no apologists for drunks, know how to say when. They warn, for example, against alcohol for colds and snake bites, point out that many a death technically attributed to accidents, suicide, homicide, bullets and knives should properly be classed as due to booze. They could, but do not, point out that the world's outstanding teetotalers today are Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini...