Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot is unconvincing enough to form the basis of any musical comedy, and, as a matter of fact, may well have served as such at one time or another, but then this isn't a musical comedy. There is some music, to be sure, furnished, according to the program, by Ben Bernie's Seville Orchestra (not to be confused with his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra). It isn't very tuneful but affords an opportunity for some good xylophoning...
...press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family, wanted to make sure that nothing happened...
Henry Ford added another generality to his large list.† Said he, in an interview in the January McClure's: "This globe has been inhabited by intelligent people millions of times, and very ancient people, I believe, were highly developed in the arts and sciences. . . . I am sure they had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Historians and geologists, with whom Mr. Ford has not always agreed, did not agree with him in this case...
When they had gathered their startled wits, the shepherds went to Bethlehem and found the Babe in the manger, and impulsively adored him. But his mother wondered that strangers should come and thus adore her child; and she adored him herself, and was more sure of his goodness.-(St. Luke...
...Ciechanowska, French Ambassador and Mme. Paul Claudel. la Chicago she had intended to sing but instead she took to her bed with influenza, cancelled all future engagements. When newsmen asked Harvester Harold Fowler McCormick if his wife intended to forsake her singing, he answered: "I am sure I don't know, but I'd like to. Can't you find...