Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, Ike promptly denied all. "Frankly," he said, "I have no political angle, and I'm not going to let any sort of talk by others make me a candidate." Asked if he had seen the Key West stories, he replied: "I wouldn't comment on anything [Harry Truman] said, even if he said it." Then, voicing the "highest respect and admiration" for the President, he added: "Back in 1948, he never wavered in believing that I meant what I said in declining to be a candidate, and I don't believe...
...Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards...
...salesladies asked if I wouldn't like to see something new in dump trucks. "This one over here is a product of the Bing Crosby Research Foundation," she said as she pulled a heavy red truck out of the tinkering hands of a small boy, mumbling to him as she did so a perfunctory "Can I help you?" The truck operated by electricity and had a complete gear panel. On the front of the 18-inch-long vehicle was an elevator such as is used to life and carry heavy crates or cotton bales. The truck, which ran on house...
...this point, a floorwalker approached Santa and called out, "Wouldn't Santa like to feed his reindeer now?" "Aye," said Santa, and he departed, waving farewells to the puzzled children...
...very funny female indeed, but in Blondes she suggests the football-playing "heroine" of a varsity show more than the deceptively fragile Lorelei. With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her voice that goes suddenly Dixie and suddenly husky, and her simultaneous suggestion that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and steel bars would bend in her hands, she is not so much a broad caricature as a pure original. She is forced to overdo the whole thing, but in such individual numbers as A Little Girl from Little Rock it richly pays...