Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought them "believing a revival in agriculture was approaching." In his biography he says: "I ought to have been enough of a philosopher to recognize that revivals of agriculture have never been known...
That Minister Munro ought to get on well with his easy-going tropical hosts is suggested by a story told on him in Washington. Invited to dinner at the White House, he and Mrs. Munro arrived 30 min. late, were advised by Chief Usher Ike Hoover to dine elsewhere. On another occasion, dilatory Dana Munro arrived late with a speech-of-state which he had prepared for the President to deliver...
...have never before had a pair, is the very first time. I do it now because I feel I ought to have a change. . . . I have been absent from the Chamber, Mr. President, only for nine days during my service of nearly 28 years. I feel a little exhausted now-more so than when . stood on the floor of the Senate for ten hours a day, week in and week...
...Robeson says her husband has a fault: he is lazy. Beyond that she will not go. To a friend in London who suggested someone ought to write Paul's life, Biographer Eslanda admitted she was trying to, had made several attempts already. But, put in Paul: "She thinks I'm a little tin angel with no faults at all, and so of course the book is stupid, uninteresting and untrue...
Says Author Tilden, who ought to know: Wimbledon (England) is "the last word in tennis clubs," Wimbledon's famed centre court the finest in the world. As the reader might suppose, the story moves at a fairly fast pace...