Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubts of the continued personal popularity of President Roosevelt," generously admitted the Republican New York Herald Tribune, "the enthusiastic nation-wide celebration of his 53rd birthday ought to end them...
...censored out of Hansard, the official minutes of debate. With a score of poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing to say about the Minister of Labor for he is a son of Lord Derby and was born in another stratum. But the Prime Minister grew into...
...dramatizing the issues of practical pacifism Hector Lazo has done something beyond the power of the propagandist pamphleteer. He has connected argument for war-resistance with living, personal situations in a way that ought to bring them home to many who would read them in formal declarations only with a closed mind. The book will hold the interest of a large group of people who would stop on the second page of a systematic exposition. And the earnestness of the book and the convincing way in which it sets forth the author's point of view may lead some...
...well until what lawyers call "the demise of the Crown." As the old King dies your royal warrant expires and the new King may or may not let you sweep his chimneys. Thus purveyors to the Crown are always more or less on edge. Last week they felt they ought to do something about the royal jubilee next spring, did something curious...
...military powers, so that her culture might keep pace with her civilization. Oxford may have a functionary called the Buskin Master of Drawing, there may be a National Portrait Gallery and a Royal Academy, but England is not. Fry maintained, so hospitable to the arts as she ought to be. His last book may contribute, in small measure, to rouse the British lion from the slumbers of Philistinism...