Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ought to know also that Professor Warren is Ivar Kreuger in disguise. Just a simple matter of skin grafting which any beauty surgeon could perform. How Ivar laughs these days in Washington to think people believe he is dead...
...want an absolutely authentic lie which provoked an international incident take the one the Chinese told about the Emperor of Japan. They said it was his fault that the Empress didn't have a son for so long. The Japanese said it was her fault and they ought to know. Anyhow Japanese anger at this widely printed Chinese lie was one of the things which provoked the Japanese attack on Shanghai. I was there and I know...
German physicians who fail to report patients who ought to be sterilized were threatened last week with a fine of 150 marks...
Mused Mary Pickford in Chicago: "Women ought to learn that kindness is sometimes the most devastating and weakening influence. Wives especially make this mistake. There ought to be a school where women are taught to be reasonably selfish. It is the unselfish ones who ruin themselves and everyone depending upon them...
...hopeless resignation of her subjects. With compassion she makes ink and paper plead for her sufferers; when he looks at the prints the jaunty, smart, well clad and fed spectator feels the same compassion more sharply than if he saw the original subjects (though not more sharply than he ought); that...