Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jail a Mrs. Anna Kessler rushed at cowering Mr. Koch. "You rat," she yelled, "you ought to be hanged! I'll kill you! Where is my ring? It cost $600! Tell me where it is, you villain!" Mr. Koch's plump cheeks puffed; his breath popped; he burst into tears. Police shouldered the angry matrons away and helped the rascal to a cell...
...cheer. Other colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly college students... We may not be able to win..." he concludes (after announcing that we are reputed to be "too dignified to have a peppy cheer"), "but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger measure of approbation from those attending the games." Mr. King's criticisms are apparently made in all seriousness...
...ablest newspapermen . . . one of the few men of the city [Baltimore] who never fell under the spell of the methods for which H. L. Mencken stands. . . While the Evening Sun [Mr. Mencken's]was saying in effect that it is a pretty sordid world and all jobholders ought to be hung,* Mr. Adams clung to his old sentimental love of the human race.'' Said H. L. Mencken in the Evening Sun: "Of all the journalists I have known in this life, the late Jonh Haslup Adams was the only one who never made a visitor compromise with...
...nominee was John C. Lodge, onetime Michigan State Senator, 18 years a Detroit Alderman. In 1919, Mayor James Couzens of Detroit said to Alderman Lodge: "You ought to be mayor of this town." As President of the City Council, Alderman Lodge virtually was the mayor later, for four years. Not until friends came to him with 50,000 names on a petition did he resign as Council president and enter his name in the primary...
...able to win in football, but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger measure of approbation from those attending the games. Delcevare King...