Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still played with the usual bow, but its qualities in both lyrical tone and resonance are far better adapted to jazz than those of the violin. I have ordered six which ought to be here in a few days, and I have no doubt that in a year or so this instrument will be an essential part of every jazz orchestra in the country...
Said General Pershing: "I don't think we ought to delay," and got on with the preliminary speeches. Leaving Cherbourg through a driving rain for their Paris Decennial, the legionaries were saluted by poilus stationed every ten feet for nearly two miles along the railway tracks...
...ought to make good time- say 30 days to Urga-and if I am caught, that will be six months of Siberian exile, that...
...every one, regardless of his state of mind, the really great diversity of the new surroundings, opportunities, associates and over-lords ought to stir intellectual curiosity. Begin the year with an open mind. Every man must set himself to find at least one new source of inspiration...
...joined us in singing every Sunday; in fact, almost leads the congregation with her strong, clear soprano. She seemed to enjoy it." ¶The ladies of the Rapid City Fortnightly Club were in a state. "Who speaks first?" sputtered one fluttering matron. "You don't think we ought to call her -your Grace' do you?" "Nonsense, my dear, she'd think you were using her first name." "I must ask her what she thought of Lindy!" Into the midst of the furor walked Mrs. Coolidge. One lady, Mrs. M. W. Pangburn, immediately fainted, because, as she explained...