Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film Homeward Bound, which the Corporation advertised as an 'adaptation' of my short story, The Light to Leeward. I called their film 'a picture for morons.' I called their perversion of my story a betrayal of the public. I added: 'Jesse L. Lasky wouldn't know ethics if he met them in his grog. I hazard the opinion that he never heard of the word until his partner, Adolph Zukor, heard some author...
Bill Brennan (only man who has been knocked out by both Dempsey and Firpo in the same round?the twelfth) : "I wouldn't be surprised to see him [Dempsey] end the evening's entertainment before two full rounds have been fought...
...France what you wouldn't dare do in your own country...
...Alaska and Women are Women. And when a Man meets A Woman, up in those Big Open Spaces where the Eskimo dogs chase the mackinaws around and around the aurora borealis, something Big and Virile and Gripping is bound to happen. It does. Scads of it. It wouldn't be He-Man-like to tell you just what. But if you like Mr. Curwood's particular brand of Red-Blood-and-Romance, The Alaskan will suit you exactly...
...Water Tower* is tall, shy, wears a loose Oxford tie, is actually modest. He is also from Missouri. That, however, is not why he published his very successful novel anonymously. Homer Croy, having been a writer of humorous stories in the past, was afraid that the public wouldn't take him seriously when he wrote of the problems of adolescence and smalltown life in the Southwest. I had met him when his Boon Stop had just been published. He has changed little since then, except in the matter of his literary style...