Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't work out that way. Better newspaper people were not produced by the Medill School. . . . What, then, does a reporter need? . . . He needs to know something about everything. . . . Wide historical reading. . . . He could do with a typewriter, and he ought to have a car. The car will enable him to travel . . . all over the country, asking for jobs on newspapers and being turned down. . . . He will acquire large wads of firsthand observation of newspapers, people, towns and open country. . . . He should eventually become able to get a job on a newspaper on the strength of credentials from some...
...taste is sufficiently high or sufficiently low the other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience...
This material ought to be pretty promising, judging by the individual performances turned in last fall by men on both the Varsity and the Freshmen. There will be a notable lack of heavy, driving players, but there will also be an unusually varied assortment of other talents liberally scattered over all departments of the game...
...have one thing in his favor, aside from his recognized experience, since as the only old timer still left at Soldiers Field he ought to be indispensable to Harlow as the source of the "low down on the veterans who have been playing on the squad the past two years...
...ought to sprout wings," piped a friend...