Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I note that Mr. J. H. Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked...
Brother Gus last week brought in Washington a libel suit for $1,000,000 damages against Mrs. Willebrandt and Current News Features, Inc., which had syndicated her articles. He said he felt such a charge of official misconduct might injure his reputation. In St. Louis he moved to tie up payments to Mrs. Willebrandt by the Post-Dispatch, though this paper, in publishing her article, had deleted from the sentence quoted above all reference to Gus Nations...
Correspondents heard at British headquarters that whatever attitude the French might take, British troops would begin to move out of the Rhineland within a month. At London, the Daily Herald, organ of the present British Labor Cabinet, promptly said...
...Provocative incidents" reported during the week, any one of which might serve at a moment's notice as "provocation for declaring war" were...
...That might have terminated as an internal company dispute. But Promoter Montgomery mailed Airvia prospectuses which intimated that the company would earn $2,430,000 per year. In its first three weeks of operation it earned only $8,000. The flyers told the postal authorities, disclosed Promoter Montgomery's prison record (five years at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud...