Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done some...thing, is there an if in the offing--suppressed, it may be, but due nevertheless to appear when we set out our sentence in full or when we give an explanation of its meaning?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cows wandered through the streets.... Vegetables grew chiefly in cans, and stream-beds and cañons glittered with these omnipresen...t signs of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Somebody arranges the rows of cans... so that they softly say: esso--so--so--so to high-strung automobiles. Somebody loves us all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer... cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degener...ate and did not eat out of cans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A 'spasm band' is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mix...ed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another one o' them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothing. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans. And we got...ta bring our own tin cans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hi...t 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be an editor, as I was. Then to lie here close by the river over the place... Where the sewage flows from the village, And the empty cans and garbage are dumped, And abortions are hidden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »