Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...culture has sprung and ennobles our idea of what we should be. If I could change England at all I should pray that she recognize a little more the really splendid cultivation of Americans and not be, as Englishmen are inclined to, so patronizing towards "barbarous" Americans. Your question ought really to be turned around. Why don't Englishmen visit America? Enough of us go abroad as it is. If the English would come here instead of going year after year to Scotland, or the seashore, or France for their vacations, they would learn to admire...
...revolution broke. Hernandez was shot. Sergeant-Dictator appointed Rafael general in his place. The wise old soldier had been predicting revolution: "To be governed at all is bad enough, but to be governed by the same man for one, two, three, years-that is more than any one ought to be asked to endure. Always the same face, always the same proclamations, always the same way of stealing money. It is like having only one woman." An effervescent story, eminently readable, Tomorrow Never Comes is running-fire satire on politics and love, Nordic inhibitions, Latin excesses...
...epochal advances in the solution of problems of foreign trade. Still many an Exporter met many an Importer; many sound, if not startling, pronouncements were made concerning international commerce; and everybody appeared to be agreed upon the fact that foreign trade was an exceedingly good thing and that there ought to be more...
Violet Heming and Minor Watson lead the cast and give excellent performances. In fact if it isn't too much to ask, the powers ought to advance Mr. Watson to Major...
...meat - white wine. Markedly sweet wines, however, are not to be served with meat at all. Thus Sherry goes with either soup or dessert, Châateau Yquem always with dessert. As to preparing wines for the table, white vintages should be well iced in bottle; but red wines ought to be decanted some hours before serving, placed in the dining room, and allowed gradually to assume its temperature. Absolutely ruinous to the bouquet of any wine, according to Mr. Reeves-Smith, is the awful vandalism of "taking the chill off" by setting the dacanter in hot water. A simple...