Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...submit that each fisherman ought to catch at least 50 fish during the season. I should like more than that myself, but that ought to be demanded as a minimum . . . provided it includes one big one for purposes of indelible memory, conversation and historic record...
...Since this melodramatic raid has been carried out by Scotland Yard, I admit the necessity for taking action. But abrogation of Russia's special trade privileges, and prosecution of all alleged spies and agitators ought to be enough to satisfy our honor...
...rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate upon "a bill which is not only one of the worst pieces of legal draftsmanship on record, but moreover so mangled by amendments that the Government ought to redraft it entire . . . . " Conservatives shouted that the Laborites ought to cooperate in redrafting the bill, a suggestion which so enraged Mr. Clynes that he uttered an able if unconscious "bull." Cried he: "Asking the Opposition to cooperate with the Government is like asking burglars to cooperate with the police...
...chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning I am feeling first rate, strong and vigorous and as happy as any man ought...
Ruddigore. With his painstaking productions of lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds...