Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trial Marriage. In Minneapolis, C. B. Hanscom refused to lend his lie detector to a young man who explained: "I've got some questions I want to ask her before we get married...
...course the supreme conundrum of our time. We ask it in Manchuria . . . eastern Europe . . . Italy . . . Iran . . . Tripolitania . . . the Baltic and the Balkans . . . Poland . . . Canada . . . Japan. We can ask it sometimes even in connection with events in our own United States...
...awakening in the morning he would walk across the upstairs hallway to the Lincoln Room in his long nightgown and slippers. There he would peek out the window to see whether I was on the lawn. ... If he did not see me, he would have Brooks telephone downstairs to ask if I were in the building. . . . Sometimes he would tell the elevator operator to take him to the basement. Then he would try to sneak out the East or the West entrance, just to fool me. Everyone on the staff cooperated with me and tipped...
Astromental historians updated F. W. Though the last Englishman had long been dead, the British Empire continued to exist. The Germans had been the first people to ask to have their chauvinisms removed by the Central Psycho-Surgical Bureau. Russian Communism ("hoary with age") had clothed itself in such "intoxicating religious pomp" that the young Marxist clergy swung censers (full of disinfectant), chanted rhymed statistics and wore miters inscribed with the sacred text: "The Welfare of the Greatest Number of Microorganisms is the Purpose of the Cosmos." The U.S. had passed a Constitutional amendment "by virtue of which the economic...
...depression, Atlanta had no money to pay its schoolteachers, so city officials went to Walter Henry Rich, president of Rich's Inc., to ask him what to do. He old them: "Pay your teachers with scrip. We'll honor...