Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your readers know Oxford's other metaphysical classic...
...Reader Smith ought to know better than interfere in a family quarrel. Italy's present imports of oil are around 2,000,000 tons a year. This does not include imports for naval and military use (estimated at another 1,000,000 tons) which do not pass through the customs. The Italian oil company which has the exploitation of Albania's oil resources produced 120,-ooo tons last year, and hopes (perhaps over-sanguinely) to produce 300,000 tons...
...Ohioans know John Bricker as a husky, iron-grey-haired 45-year-old who has the elemental political prerequisites. He was a farm boy, schoolteacher, lawyer, a notably honest utilities commissioner, an ab.e State attorney-general before he ran and won on last year's Republican upswell. He pared $3,000,000 from the last Davey budget, in turning out the Daveycrats he offended some politicos by holding Republican patronage within bounds. Every inch a Presidential prospect in his own mind, he is mortally afraid that indiscreet friends or canny enemies will boom him too soon, explode his chance...
...floor of the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know if Britain's Army chiefs had advised the Government that Britain could defend the independence of Poland and Rumania, Britain's new allies, without the aid of Soviet Russia. Said he succinctly...
Three new bands hit the record market this week, all led by excellent musicians. Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny, two of the best hot trombone men in the country, both have bands that know how to play ensemble work and how to play quietly. While the former's "Persian Rug" is quite restrained, it still has some bursts of that inimitable Teagarden trombone. Bobby Hackett's "Sunrise Sercuade" is a beautifully restrained affair that fits down to the last note--highly recommended . . . "Wizzin' The Wizz" and "Denison Swing," supposedly featuring the rather tiresome but flashy two fingered piano of Lionel...