Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life," Helen Maude Cam said last night at a meeting held in the Rhinelander Foundation. Professor Cam, Samuel Zemurray, Jr., and Deris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor History, said that in this world God has given us the freedom of choice between good and evil. We know what the laws of God are. If we fail because we break His laws we have only ourserves to blame. Such is democracy, Cam concluded...
...mayor came back with the familiar questions & answers of the cornered politician. Where, he wanted to know, had all these good people been when he tried to talk up legislation for slum clearance? If they were looking for slot machines, he could fetch them out of practically every self-respecting lodge hall in town as well as in the joints. Cried Mayor Swartz: "Sometimes the truth hurts...
...former mine mates peered over Bevan's shoulder. "Why, man, that's pretty true, you know," he said. "But by God, mind you live...
Tory M.P. and Punch Editor Sir Alan (A. P.) Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
...reported vendetta with the Defense Secretary? What about the army's warnings to the President? The Peróns had obviously come to terms with the military brass. But what were the terms? Even the best-informed porteños did not know. But there were some guesses. Among the best: 1) Evita would gradually retire from public life; and 2) Perón would follow a more hard-boiled attitude toward labor...