Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced with the statement that perhaps those in the show business should attempt to elevate the tastes of their audiences rather than cater to them, she replied, "You and I know better...
...strictly on this season's record, there would unquestionably be some changes, but judging from an estimate of the ability and immediate possibilities of the players this rating seems essentially sound. Shields has been acclaimed the coming star of the country by Tilden, Richards, and others who ought to know. Anyone who has taken the time to watch this youngster with a critical eye cannot doubt the truth of the prediction. He has unlimited possibilities if he would only take the game seriously. Coen is another who has just started his ascent of the tennis ladder, while Bell's record...
Quincy--"Strange Interlude". 5.30 o'clock. You ought to know what to think of this...
Newsmen, scarcely believing Cracker-shot Pershing could commit such an error, tried to verify the Woollcott beat. From Paris, the general was quoted as saying: "There is absolutely nothing to it." In Manhattan Financier Baruch insisted: "It is pure fiction. I ought to know...
...aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes at neutral, take their hands off the controls, fold their arms and apathetically wait...