Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started to leave the platform Brennan came forward. They shook hands and Brennan raised his voice to the audience: "If for no other reason than that we are shaking hands, you ought to be satisfied. This is the first time I have spoken to brother Cappellini in a year. I want his administration to be a success." The delegates sat in mute astonishment. Then they began to cheer...
...that the Indians employed were released from jail where they had been imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. There the President delivered an address on the opening of the Oregon Trail, telling the dramatic story of the missionary, Marcus Whitman, and adding, "If it isn't true, it ought...
HELEN OF TROY, NEW YORK?A musical comedy which suffered much from public overconfidence in the authors (George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, creators of Merton of the Movies). It turned out to be just a real good show. The normal reaction: " Yes, it's good; but it ought to be so much better...
Said he (speaking of the "intentional base on balls "): " I've had an idea about this whole business buzzing around my head for some time, and I wonder if it would work out. . . . Suppose the pitcher passes a man. It is agreed, to begin with, that every player ought to have the same chance at the bat. Why couldn't another man be put on first to run for him while he stays at the plate...
...literary levels are beyond criticism. The essay on "Intellectuals and Roughnecks", for example, ought to be read--forcibly or otherwise--to every young "writer" or "literary man" or "thinker" under twenty-five years of age. It contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare...