Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason: Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld was rumored to want played at his wedding the song of his native Lippe-Biesterfeld, a rustic German ditty with the hearty chorus: "Lippe-Detmold is a wonderful town, boom, boom, BOOM!" According to the Nazis, the Prince ought to have "demanded" that the Nazi Horst Wessel song or at the very least Deutschland Über Alles should boom at his wedding-particularly since Lippe-Biesterfeld was abolished as a principality by the German Republic. While the whole German press roared its wrath, the Nazi Political Police rushed around to the homes of three...
...Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news." Not so the august London Times (circulation 192,000) which put its immense prestige among ruling Britons behind an editorial declaring that some news ought to be with held from the public. "There is no Golden Rule for news," summed up the Times, "though sometimes it is silence that is golden and not publication...
...obvious for comment that the men from the first college with records under 82, and the men from Harvard with records under C, ought not to have been received...
Some of the instructors in the English Department feel that journalism is too vocational a subject for college, and that it ought to be left for graduate schools. However, training in writing poetry, novels, and plays is hardly less vocational in character. Journalism is simply another from of writing...
...shores with what may be another Ray Noble. Here is a slow tango that needs no Latin to feel its appeal; too bad it is marred by poor lyrics. The reverse, That's Life, I Guess*3/4 by Guy Lombardo is so soft and gooey that your needle ought to stick in the grooves...