Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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COME, COME MR. EDITOR DON'T BE SO ACADEMIC ABOUT JALOPY IN LETTERS (TIME, JUNE 7). ANYONE OUGHT TO KNOW THE REAL ARGUMENT LIES IN WHETHER IT IS AN EUPHEMISTIC CONTRACTION OF "DILAPIDATED" OR SPRINGS DIRECTLY FROM "GALLOP," MEANING TO MOVE BY SPRINGING LEAPS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AZTEC PURGATIVE ROOTS AND SUGGEST PUNISHING ED FOR SUCH TRIPE BY MAKING HIM EAT HIS WORDS SEASONED WITH SOME JALAP AND A WELL TURNED JALOPY...
President Claudius T. Murchison of the Cotton Textile Institute called the bill "administratively impossible to the point of grotesqueness." Managing Director Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute said the Board members ought to be paid $20,000 a year, given lifetime jobs, if Congress was determined to give any men such powers. He filed 28 typed pages of suggested changes in the bill. Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood felt that instead of permitting the Board at its option to employ advisers in fixing wages & hours for a particular industry, they should be compelled to appoint advisory...
...lovers on two continents came to the defense of this noble breed's original strain. Newspapers as far removed in editorial policy as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York Sun published editorials urging mercy. The St. Bernard, said the Sun, "ought in fairness to be judged by his long and respectable history, not by the crimes of an occasional rogue...
...close that guests could step aboard and dance to the music of big-name bands. Rose had his usual staff to carry out his ideas: stage designs by Albert Johnson, direction by John Murray Anderson, costumes by Raoul Pene duBois, music by Dana Suesse (Whistling in the Dark, You Ought to Be in Pictures, My Silent Love, The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful...
...bill was from the cinema chains, which are included on the same basis as chain stores. Said a spokesman from Warner Brothers, biggest chain in the State (180 theatres) : "We are submitting gracefully. Everybody's sort of getting used to this tax business. I guess we ought to be happy we aren't living in Germany or Russia...