Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady, don't you know women aren't allowed in here at night? The gate's over there...
...memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I suspect, for my extremely feminine thighs and legs, well shown off by smooth. skin-tight trunks in my third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went on, I proceeded to sing passionately to each in turn.... I preferred roles that allowed me to make a feature of my curves, since, apparently, I couldn...
...there is a touch of the reformer about Dr. Hooton, and beyond his immediate pessimism a sort of long-sighted optimism. "We must improve man," he says, "before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave. The human improvement required is primarily biological and we do not yet know how to effect it. But there are enough clever youngsters to find out, if only they can be shown the necessity of tackling the problem. They at any rate will know the truth, and perhaps it will make them free. Free from what? From imbeciles and morons who are allowed...
...other hand is Ed Wynn. He complains bitterly about marriage. "You know," he howls, "once a girl proposed to me in a garage, and I couldn't back...
...culture that makes you just want to learn things. He jokes about it, too, for when, in his play, he invents a new mustard gas, he declares that he's going to send it to Cambridge to be approved by Frankfurter. In another of his lines he says, "You know, the dogs in my home town are so high class that the dog-catchers have to be Harvard...