Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protestant, but I think the Methodists ought to move out of Washington and the Catholics ought to keep...
Furthermore, continued good M. Painlevé, the word war ought to be expunged from written or spoken utterance, during peace times, so that in a crisis the very mention of "WAR!!" would shock and arouse public opinion to combat the scourge...
Members of both parties put in sharp contrast Pierre Samuel Dupont's feeling that even though he was not taking a Democratic job, he ought to resign from General Motors before endorsing the Brown Derby. As for Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob, he last week resigned from a lot he had not already resigned from...
...Morgan Club again and again. Their check was $92.60 the second time. On their third visit Louis Zalud brought Helen Morgan, the "hostess," to their table and introduced her. She sat down and asked for brandy. When it came, they complimented her on its quality. She told them it ought to be good because "it costs us $6.25 a quart wholesale." She explained : "We don't handle gin because all the college boys drink gin....They generally have only about $20 to spend in an evening and bring their own gin." The Tysons & party paid $15 per pint...
...place there now is published The Rural Digest, a 32-pager, conceived, conscribed, composed and cut after the fashion of TIME, the Newsmagazine. The object: to boil down to terse paragraphs of restatement or selective quotation every 30 days, all the agricultural news a high-grade farmer ought to know...