Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neat dress. Now, as Yugoslavia's first marshal, he gleefully indulges his fancy for uniforms (his latest number: dress blues with four-inch red trouser stripes, gleaming ebony boots, visored cap with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes his public relations men ask him to pose in civilian clothes to seem closer to the masses. After long indecision, Tito finally chose his marshal's insignia (made of felt): a star wreathed in gold laurel. It was designed by a Belgrade tailor who made himself a pair of scarce bedroom slippers from...
Since the Armistice terms forbid Italians to commit hostile acts against citizens of the United Nations, Signor Mollica published his challenge in the Roman press, hoped that the Soviet Embassy would relay it promptly. When a U.S. newshawk called to ask questions, Signor Mollica snapped to attention, clicked his heels and asked politely: "Do you represent Signor Vishinsky...
...little later, over tea and cakes, it was the Japs who were surprised when Stoddard thought to ask Hirohito's master of ceremonies Hidenari Terasaki whether the Emperor wanted a man or woman tutor. (Jap princes are traditionally removed from feminine influence, even their own mother's, at an early age.) Says Stoddard: "Terasaki thumped his teacup down on the mahogany table, really baffled. When he returned after consulting Hirohito, he said the Emperor wanted a woman...
...ask Cornelians (and no one answers), that babies cry only a third as much at home as in the hospital, and that, in their experience, most patients who show up for treatment by psychiatrists turn out to have been bottle-fed babies...
Cried a commission man at Chicago's Union Stockyards: "It was like having the deliriums. You might as well ask a steer to read the newspaper as try to figure out what would happen...