Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perused the TIME of July 11 most assiduously in order to be satiated by your weekly repast and was very comfortably feasting when I was suddenly shocked by the caption "Darkie's Horses" on p. 26 under Sport. Certainly I thought, "my eyes are deceiving me. I must be partaking of the feast more rapidly than is good for my digestive apparatus...
After President Lázaro Cárdenas seized great foreign oil properties this year, President Roosevelt explained for Mexico's benefit that the Good Neighbor policy "can never be merely unilateral. ... It is bilateral and multilateral and . . . the fair dealing which it implies must be reciprocated." But still, President Crdenas did nothing about paying for what he had grabbed. England got so huffy about the á treatment of her nationals that she broke off diplomatic relations with Mexico...
Recent expropriations have forced Secretary of State Cordell Hull to face the question of whether the U. S. could continue to spare the rod without spoiling the neighbor. He decided on a verbal spanking, denied that it must be forcible...
...wrote detective stories under the name of Nicholas Blake-well-plotted affairs such as There's Trouble Brewing and A Question of Proof. This week, his latest murder mystery appeared with both his name and pseudonym on the jacket. This may have been self-protection, for The Beast Must Die revolves around a writer of mystery stories whose carefully guarded pseudonym gets him into no end of trouble...
...Beast Must Die tells the story of Mysterymaker Frank Cairnes, known to thousands under his pseudonym but to few by his real name, after his son is killed by a hit-&-run driver. Slipping into his ready-made disguise, Cairnes set out to avenge his son, soon finds himself involved in a conventional dilemma-one of seven suspects in a murder case, all with unsatisfactory accounts of their actions at the time of the killing. The mystery is literary because its solution depends largely on a critical analysis of a piece of writing: a sensitive detective finds revealing insincerity...