Word: oughtn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Histoire de la Litterature Anglaise, chiefly in order to read the pages on myself." Though he knew it was a weakness, he was often attracted to patent medicines. Once he took six boxes of anti-fat pills, which upset his heart. His doctor mildly rebuked him, said "that I oughtn't to take medicines without con-suiting him. And of course he is quite right. It is perfectly staggering the idiotic things even a wise man will do." Though Bennett wrote for money and made a good income (as high as $75,000) he was not extravagant...
...have known several men, one of them a close relative, another a dear friend, who have received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Without exception they have gotten to be Francophile. They have warmed up from cold or luke warm to hot in shouting that we oughtn't to collect from France what they certainly owe us! You know the men I mean-such as Myron Timothy Herrick. If Kaiser Wilhelm had given him the Iron Cross and if he had become as pro-German as he became pro-French, only Heaven knows what might have happened...
...know I oughtn't to say this and I know my wife would tell me not to. I wish I did have patience, but I haven't. But what I want to ask General Smuts is what he meant when he associated the Negro with the jackass-I mean the ass -what he meant when he called us 'docile animals.' . . . I'm sure no insult was meant but when he used those words, it hurt. It cut like a two-edged sword through the heart of every Negro and we Negroes would leave this hall...