Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear his views at first hand. Vice President Garner who not only favored swift adjournment but was in the doghouse for his part in killing the Court Bill (TIME, Aug. 2) was not there. Nor was Senator Pat Harrison, who had been remarking in the cloakrooms that Congress ought to adjourn before it gets into "another state of confusion." But the visitors at the White House were quickly shamed out of any hasty desire to go home...
...time in Vera Cruz. "This Limo wasn't very tall, but he was quite active and strong and full of hell when ashore. One of his front teeth was gone and there was something like a little brad nail came down from the upper gum where the tooth ought to be. He'd had what they call a pivot tooth put in where his own tooth had been broken off with a bottle and then the pivot tooth had come off its anchor and he carried it around in his pocket...
Oldsters to whom the charade is the "prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...
...Tokyo the younger, more fanatic school of Japanese militarists fumed last week that their Empire ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat...
...lived quietly at Weston, Conn., seen his son Charles through the Yale School of Fine Arts. Both he and Kansas' eminent John Steuart Curry, who worked with him on some murals for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial in 1926, can remember with amusement that Daugherty told Curry he ought to learn how to draw...