Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something ought to be done about this. Even though bees do possess sour dispositions often scarcely compensated by their sweet production, it should be remembered that they are too ignorant, or too wise, to form protective unions, and, as insects, cannot appeal to the S. P. C. A. for justice. If the plans of the apiarist successfully culminate in more honey, it may not be of its pristine saccharinity, coming from discontented bees, and its lowered market value may be punishment enough to the owner. But if the bees grow class-conscious and revolt, making their presence felt as only...
...some time, it would seem, the publishers of Life have been getting most of their fun out of reading the brisk, bright pages of their foolish contemporary and lifelong rival, Judge. Life itself didn't seem half so funny as it ought to be. So eventually they beguiled Norman Hume Anthony, editor of Judge, to come over and take Sherwood's place...
...idea that an orchestra must have a guest conductor every so often is like a series of companionate marriages. About as soon as the women begin to get used to one man, they have to start all over again and learn someone else's faults. . . . An orchestra ought to be as sacred as a toothbrush...
...Council rejected a motion ordering that the farce Marriages Are Made in Heaven should be closed by the police. Meanwhile the drama critics of leading Frankfurt dailies exhorted their readers against further throwing of bombs in the name of Goodness and Piety. True Christians, they pointed out, ought to follow the sublime and nonviolent example of Christ...
...these stories at once will be a little too much, but there is no rule that you must read them all at a sitting. And if you have read one, you are more than likely to come back and read another provided you are the sort of person who ought to be reading them in the first place...