Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huddle is a perfectly proper and sportsmanlike means of introducing into the game the element of surprise, without which it would be stupid beyond words. The spectators for whom the game is made interesting ought certainly to be the last to complain if a few moments are required to set the stage for the thrill producers. Until a better means of achieving surprise is evolved, the huddle has come to stay...
...middle west, New England and the south ought to be heartened by this glowing description of national health. Farmers may have had doubts concerning their ability to avoid bankruptcy, bankers may have hastily condemned the Federal Reserve System, or anything which might be responsible for the present financial disasters, and manufacturers may have looked askance at trade: but now everything is settled the doctor has declared the patient to be in the best of form and therefore there can be no possible excuse for lamentations. But Mr. Hoover should travel west, north and south. He might see more than...
Meanwhile, alert lawmakers, who keep little notebooks, began to list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm...
...mother, that she, Mrs. Belmont, coerced her daughter. "I know some of the Vanderbilts personally. . . . There was no hint from any quarter that the bride was under compulsion." Later, amid applause of the Church of England Assembly, convened in London, the Bishop of Ripon bodingly warned: "Our church ought to be an obstacle to realization of the Papal dream. We have recently seen the degree of modern opportunism liable to be reached by a church which allows itself to become politically minded. . . . [The annulment] is an insult, whether calculated or not, to an old communion to which we are proud...
...onlooker clutching, crinkling his program throughout. Beth Merrill, who looks like Jeanne Eagels, plays the gawky pride of the prairies, rolls out her pointed conversation with a pleasant, if not authentic, Western drawl. In fact, the entire cast creates effective illusion. If the West is not like that, it ought to be. Best and most remarkable of all is Impresario Belasco's staging. A little thing like the creation of the firmaments is, to him, child's play. Alexander Woollcott: "Then Mr. Mack apologized. . . . Why, even Mr. Belasco apologized...