Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leopold, and profited accordingly. Quaint was Mr. Lever's presentation to King Leopold II of an ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn't lather," when he sought to use it "out of compliment to M. Lever...
...jump at night but in broad daylight or he wouldn't be writing this; the liner did not put out a lifeboat until the man had been sighted, nor would there, under any circumstances, be any point in so doing. The man -is not now married; his former wife's name is not Jeanne but Eugenia. Perhaps as you say "no one could guess why Morgan (wrong again) Hoyt should have wished to leave J:he bright (?) ship," etc., but some of them seem to have made a pretty good job of trying...
Said Lawyer Miller's opponent, Assistant District Attorney de Moe: "The monkey wouldn't have bitten those children...
...President limped no more,* was in a frisky mood, jested with photographers and allowed them to snap him in several positions. "I brought them with me so I wouldn't be lonesome," said he airily flicking his wrist...
Liggett's President Gales, going to England to examine his Boots stores appreciated this employment condition. Said he: "We have made no effort and shall make none to Americanize the British stores. Even if we wished to, we wouldn't be able to send our men over there to run their stores. We need all the good men we can get here. We only exchange visits and ideas...