Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scout movement is their training, which will make them better fitted for their life as men. And as a result of their training, neither for nor against the war, they will use their judgment, 'which their Boy Scout training has made better, and I am sure the result would be "Peace on Earth and good among men." DAVID F. SELVIN...
...Patent Leather Kid (Richard Barthelmess). A tussle in the prize ring is one thing; a tussle in the trenches another. In the first, one can keep his hair slick between rounds and be reasonably sure that the fight will end as the managers agreed. But in the trenches, where a man's head may be blown off without contract, haircombs are counted superficial. Besides, there is no counter jab against a 16-inch shell. So the hero, once a cocky pugilist of the alleyways, turns yellow. But later he braces up, rushes a machine-gun nest, falls, comes...
...Coolidge and several of us other students were repeatedly grilled. The Faculty felt pretty sure it had the culprits, but failed to get a word out of Coolidge and the rest of us and it was never established who was guilty...
...months in advance. It is then that wretched hostelries truss up dilapidated chambers for the heedless hundreds who have arrived without provision. It is the season of the world-famed Festival, when Max Reinhardt? produces old plays in a manner always unique. The one thing visitors can be reasonably sure of in these Festivals is that they will start with a play related in some way to religion, in accordance with the ecclesiastical traditions of the town. This year, at last, it was Everyman, the morality in which God, in a wig, does lusty battle against Satan for the soul...
...have a favor to ask. I want to hear again from your own lips those immortal phrases which you spoke to me half a century ago." So another voice replied: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. The second voice was that of Thomas Alva Edison. The first was really that of one Thomas Chalmers onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company, but Mr. Edison and his friends pretended that it actually belonged to the phonograph...