Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirer and a loyal reader of TIME. It occurs to me to make a suggestion that a questionnaire having as its theme "Why Don't You Visit England?" would bring out all manner of interesting comments and criticisms which would reveal to us on this side things we ought to put right if more and more American visitors, who would greatly be welcomed, are to come to us. I pass the suggestion on to you in this rough way. It would, I think, produce most interesting material. SYDNEY WALTON* London, England Let readers say why they do not visit...
Reaction to farm relief: In Nodaway County, Mo., President Hoover owns an 80-acre farm, valued by the board of equalization at $85 per acre. Said a board member: "With farm relief in sight, the President's farm ought to be more valuable." Its valuation was then moved up to $125 per acre...
...become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association, the market where Hiram Walker is listed. Loudly he protested that dealings in liquor stocks on U. S. exchanges are, or ought to be, illegal under the 18th Amendment. He demanded a refund of his losses...
...tall, snowy-haired Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith soon consented to answer several questions which are riddles to many a U. S. traveler in Europe. Questions such as: "Which are the rarest and finest wines?" "Should Châateau Yquem be iced, or Châateau Lafite warmed?" "Which wines ought one to drink with the soup, fish, roast, fowl?" "At a mixed dinner of ladies and gentlemen in a restaurant is it smart or vulgar to drink exclusively cocktails and Champagne...
...called battle of Mazatlan last week turned out to have been hardly more than whoopee, though at one time 1,200 were erroneously described as dead. Some day however the pepper battle of Cocula ought to be famous. The town itself is unimportant, but there is a church, and last week there was a machine gun in the belfry-a federal gun. "Sangre de Dios!" cried the captain of a band of Insurrectos which had surprised this little federal outpost, "Blood of Christ, bring me chili, bring me peppers!" Armfuls and armfuls of dried chili were stacked on the windward...