Word: shouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...
...what I do want to say, and say strongly is that I think these stories about Harvard and Princeton proselyting athletes are wrong. Why shouldn't a baseball player sell peanuts on Soldiers Field during the fall? Why should that place Harvard in the position of being accused of subsidizing athletes...
...there is drinking, but in a city of six million people, it's remarkable that you don't see more of it. Why the Graphic? It's a good newspaper to work for, and just because I'm a Dry is no reason why I shouldn't be on a paper that is against Prohibition. That makes it better." No debutante to the headlines is Newsman Upshaw. Seven years ago, just before Christmas, when President Harding called a meeting of Governors, Congressman Upshaw stood up on the House floor and shouted: "If these Governors...
...Louie cannot be found. Then the truth comes out. Louie has got her pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is true she done something she shouldn't do, but after we get married it will be all right. Everybody makes mistakes. What if people didn't forget such mistakes, then everybody would be mad at everybody else, and nobody would have even one friend...
When the Secretary returned to Washington the President chided him : "Now. Mac, you know you have a big job on hand. You shouldn't take risks...