Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nephew, slumped down in his chair almost out of sight, looked up occasionally to quote from memory long passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright Johnson, one of Texas' most eloquent bull-roarers, snorted that conspiracy testimony was stronger against Shook and Burkett, bellowed: "I don't think there is a man on the jury who would send a burr-headed nigger through a cracked gate or fine him a five-cent piece on the evidence they have in this case...
Says Frick, the stolid one: "People think our skating is eccentric. It is not so. Any figure skater should be able to do a serious Spread Eagle asleep. It becomes comedy when you do odd things with your body while the Spread Eagle is going on. We use our brains, nerve-control and concentration." Says Frack, the fractious one: "What we like most outside of skating is to go to a vaudeville show so we can laugh once in a while...
...Oliver Francis Heywood, concluded that he would be getting a bargain if he could sacrifice a fourth of his salary and give up the palace. Said the Bishop to his diocesan conference: "The idea that the Church is concerned largely with the upper classes is steadily growing, and I think it is due in part to the fact that we bishops are forced to live in vast houses which are symbols of aloofness. . . . We keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...
...Hitler has really sacrificed himself to a great cause. He has made lots of people feel good. Think of the poor average American leading his mechanical, time-clock existence with his fat wife and his four-room duplex. Before Hitler the only things he had to look forward to were getting drunk on Saturday night and Roosevelt's fireside chats. Even movies held no charm for him. Imagine seeing a picture with Paulette Goddard in it, while sitting next to a hefty wife! Now he can guess philosophically about how long it will be before...
...think "lag" style can be found by pounding ahead in four-four drive. Just the opposite results. And if your are going to be successful, you must have a band that plays in the "same hag"; in other words, plays as a unit the same amount behind the beat. That's why all new bands, bands of all-stars, bands mixing two beat and four beat men are bad. You can't have a mixture of ideas about the "proper lag" and get the swing. For unity, a really good swing band must make a football team look like...