Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technical execution of the elementals that his charges may show, and will form some idea as to his prospects for next year. The busy-like-bees atmosphere and the delightfully athletic smell of the upper reaches of the Athletic Building bode well for the next winter. The team ought to be a good one. By TIME...
...dimensions. Speaker Byrns lets his grow wild and in so doing they belie him. For 40 years, ever since as a country boy he talked his way into the State legislature at Nashville, he has put a friendly arm around the shoulders of his constituents and told them they "ought to be comin' up to see" him oftener. In 1908 he got himself elected to Congress in place of Nashville's fire-eating Representative John Wesley Gaines but ever since he has dodged political combat. In 1930 he gave up his ambition to be Senator rather than risk...
...Hell!" Lord Castlerosse opened his article in the London Daily Express, "I ought to know ... I have been bombed and bombed and bombed, not like the fellows who were bombed in England during...
...LEWIS is a young English poet whose name is always mentioned nowadays with those of Spender and Auden, and to understand his poetry and in fact the aims of the group with which he is associated, the reader ought to turn to the manifesto, "A Hope for Poetry," published separately in England, but reprinted here together with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry...
...More Spring" is the other idyll, which brings together a team of lovers which by all rights according to all critics in all advertisements ought to be together all the time, Warner Baxter and Janet Gaynor. We, however, remember Warner Baxter as the dashing Mexican in the cinematic versions of O. Henry's southwest stories, and as the strong man in "The Renegade," and as the rebel in "Broadway Bill," so somehow we feel forced to disagree with all other critics. Despite the fact that the story is very sweet, we like Warner better in a much more masculine role...