Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...opinion a public opinion which approves of prizefighting, including the knockout blow, cannot logically condemn flogging. Men and women who flock to an exhibition between the 'Game Chick' and the 'Battling Brown,'* would gladly see 'Burglar Bill' punished by the 'Wandsworth Walloper...
...cannot, however, be said to spoil this act, for the playwright has already done so?the husband's quick about-face to his wife when she has but mentioned her new philosophy of love is anything but the strong solution which you expect from a playwright who charges his characters and their destinies with conviction. Playwright Stewart plays a small part himself, merely by the process of speaking a little louder than usual. This is nicely informal, but, in combination with Hope Williams' amateurism, it makes little progress toward the high comedy of which he seems potentially capable...
...great was 1929's gain in corporate earnings over 1928? The answer cannot be given until the last late report is issued, but last week the National City Bank issued a preliminary summary of the first 806 companies to issue statements. Total earnings showed a gain of 12.5%. Big gainers were the amusement companies, up 85.6%, steel and iron up 70.7%, shipping up 67.3%. Losers included the automobile companies, down 10.2%, fertilizers, down 21.1%, and the sugar companies whose loss represented a drop from earnings of $5,376,000 to a deficit of $1,532,000 and therefore cannot...
...ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire. This is the so-called "dentifrice racket." Fortnight ago the liberal New Republic (weekly) called attention to various statements of the American Dental Association: "No dentifrice can be used for so-called mouth correction . . . mouth acidity or alkalinity cannot be controlled by any induced substances." The American Medical Association has declared: "Dentifrice has in itself no magical or chemical power to clean, and the best mouth washes are warm water or a solution of common table salt...
...have heard . . . half a dozen great industrial leaders . . . some of whose names are familiar on both sides of the Atlantic . . . treat the recent stockmarket panic as lightly as one might regard an attack of chicken pox on a strong and growing youth. . . . Be a bull on America and you cannot go wrong! is one of their favorite sayings...