Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble with that clock," Mr. Walford concluded, "is that its everybody's business. You wouldn't think it would make much difference if it's half a minute or a few seconds off, but if it cuts off a professor's lecture, you can bet I hear from it. Sometimes I get so discouraged that rd like to give someone else a chance to try to keep it right...
Though he admitted that the bell had more or less outlived its usefulness, he seemed quite overwhelmed at the thought of doing away with it." Why that is Harvard tradition", he said, "as old as the College itself. I wouldn't know how to go about abolishing it--I certainly don't feel that I have the authority to do it myself, and don't believe anyone has except the President...
...though he had seen something funny. And the darker and more beautiful his singing became, the wider that joking smile grew. I had always thought that I, myself, was as humorous a wight as anyone, but I knew that if I were out there singing that tragical music I wouldn't be grinning all over the place...
...respondent when Larry Fay was sued for divorce. Larry, a young fellow who had hoped for a quiet, homy home, soon found that not only was he not to have that, but that he had even lost the highly-spiced wife who could have given it to him and wouldn...
Alexander Woollcott: "To the cautious playgoer craving advice as to whether he ought to put it on his list, one can only say that it wouldn't hurt him any and that he might find it quite entertaining...