Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Coyle of Pennsylvania cracked a joke of which the theme promises to be stale indeed before the 72nd House is organized. Mr. Coyle was traveling from San Francisco to San Diego. At first he planned to go by airplane. Then, cautiously, he took a train instead. His reason: "I couldn't run any risks, as I am one of the two Republicans who hold the balance of power in the House...
Caterpillar Jr. Within 100-mi, of Los Angeles, his goal for a "junior transcontinental speed record,"* Gerald Nettleton. 20, of Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house...
...mount a chair and begin a speech using such expressions as "Don't let them get away with it," and "I never got such treatment in Gimbels." Of course this didn't last long because Macy employes soon outnumbered the rioters. For my part I couldn't help feeling that there was something just a little staged about the whole affair...
...think I have any influence and I don't know what the penalty is, and I don't want to tell it to any judge and I'd have answered you the first time only my teeth were stuck together with some taffy and I couldn't and I'm sorry...
Sampson wielding the jawbone of an ass couldn't have raised more ructions in the ranks of the Philistines than did "Audacious" with his recent rating and berating of Boston's crop of debs. The article published in the current number of the "Tatler", and taken up with high gleo by the Boston press" classifies some one hundred and thirty lassies in various categories and finds that very little of a complimentary nature can be said about most of them. One is inclined to say, rather meanly, that one isn't surprised...