Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apropos of Maria Jeritza's unviolated flaxen locks, accused unbobbed women of having "microbes." She knew all about James John ("Gene") Tunney's having whipped Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight boxing championship. "My boy won," she said. "He's an angel, and so good looking. . . . I wouldn't mind a bit being engaged to that great big, handsome, blond boy. I saw him in Miami last winter and gave him a gold medal of the Blessed Virgin, and they tell me he carried it with him in the fight...
...trouble in China now," he said, "but it's mostly in the newspapers. I asked one of the reporters why he didn't tell the God's truth once in a while without embellishments about murdered missionaries and tortured travelers, and he replied. "Captain, the God's truth wouldn't interest a soul...
...opinion peaunts are assets to this country a lot more than Indians are. In North Carolina, where you say the Indians have increased 34% in a decade, peanuts are grown more than anywhere else in the U. S. I leave it to any North Carolina business man whether he wouldn't rather have more peanuts than more Indians...
...tacit agreement. He is supposed to be a rufous Wyoming body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women." One of these males is melted by the divorcée. Nancy, a profane prairie kitten, makes the evening a quaint quadrangle...
...have nothing to say.' "The other was: 'I'll be right here when they come to serve it (the subpoena). Of course I wouldn't try to evade it. I never evade...