Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer came a story, of the final dialog, last week, between Mr. Doty (known in the Legion as Gilbert Clare) and his commander, Colonel Rollet, at Sidi-bel-Abbes. M. le Colonel, choleric, began by reminding Mr. Doty that he ought to have been shot for desertion, then went on to praise him for certain acts of gallantry. Finally Colonel Rollet cried: "Clare, you are returning to America; you know there has been a film made there, Beau Geste, reviling the Foreign Legion...
...Britons ought to set sail for Germany without passports or visas of any sort. Germans should make the reverse voyage unhampered by official red tape. These statements seemed so self-evident to British and German statesmen, during the past week, that an agreement was reached whereby citizens of either country may visit the other when equipped merely with proof of their nationality...
...only a desirable institution, but also an economical necessity, and especially is it needed in the crowded tenement districts. In China the rapid birth rate is offset by pestilence and famine, but here in America where there is no immediate danger of such conditions, there ought to be some means of enabling a man and woman to enjoy the companionship of married life without the fear of the expenses that children would cause...
...torch from Cleveland blazed at the national convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America in Manhattan last week. The rabbis there encouraged the flame with the breath of their warm agreement. No torch of Orthodox Judaism ought ever...
Except for Colonel McCranie, in which part Rufus Hill is everything that a Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...