Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Cincinnati Enquirer the Democratic candidate for the Senate [Robert Johns Bulkley'], who favors repeal of the 18th Amendment, is running 100% ahead of the Republican candidate [Roscoe Conkling McCulloch] who is dry. . . . Many dry Republicans may go down to defeat in the November election. But ... 7 cannot see the Democrats winning the House. However, the Republican majority will be reduced and this may give the Democrats and independents an opportunity to tie up legislation through a combination similar to that in the Senate...
...Royal Commission as a whole acknowledged that a Prime Minister cannot possibly be expected to motor some five miles out to Hampstead every time he must change his clothes, asked Mr. MacDonald to state frankly what he thought his salary ought to be. Cogitating, he replied, "At least seven thousand pounds [$34,020]. . . . On five thousand [$24,300] any Prime Minister without private income and dependent on his salary would be living on charity in two years after he left the office, unless he were an extremely careful person or unless he were supported by friends...
...Older politicians] cannot eternally bluff and befool the electorate, for it is neither as stupid nor as avaricious as the pre-War generation imagines. If the real facts of the case are properly presented to them they will know what...
...fumble that touches the ground cannot be run with by a player of the opposing team, but a fumble clearly caught before it grounds is still in play...
...Murdock Pemberton, Kansas-born art critic of The New Yorker, woman's club lecturer, is even more definite, lists the four greatest living painters thus: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Derain. All except Matisse, who as a judge cannot show, are exhibiting in Pittsburgh. *Paul Gauguin, morose Post-Impressionist painter of the 1890's, grew disgusted with modern civilization, sold all his European paintings for 9,860 francs ($1,972) deserted his wife and children and went to spend the rest of his life in Tahiti, the "Terrestrial Paradise.'' There, still subject to acute melancholia, he went completely...