Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passing Fancies. In Manhattan, male shoppers who dared could now ask for ties in seven new shades: Lemon Squash, Strawberry Parfait, Pistachio Freeze, Orange Fizz, Blue Frappe, Mint Ice and Coral Crush...
Specifically, the public members would urge the President to permit voluntary wage-rate increases arrived at through collective bargaining, even where they break the Little Steel formula. One condition: that employers do not ask a corresponding increase in prices. One exception: they were willing to order wage boosts above the formula in exceptional hardship cases, even if higher prices were necessary...
Susie's most persistent fans are British seamen, who are seldom content with a standby like Danny Boy, but who bedevil her with requests for obscure English songs. Usually she knows them. The sailormen often ask for, and get, what Susie calls "The one about the girl who feeds her lover poisoned eels...
...Tried & True. Starting in the fall, American Weekly covers will feature not just pretty-girl heads & shoulders, but Nell Brinkley-type dimpled beauties with legs out of Esquire. Inside, the magazine will continue to ask the tried & true question like: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?" Only now the answers will look more authoritative...
...clergyman in Chelsea, Mass., wanted his oldest son to become a great Boston preacher like Dr. William Channing or Edward Everett Hale. He made the boy read Plato and Josephus (in translation) at the age of eight, and taught him Latin at nine. When parishioners called, Father Alger would ask, "What are you going to be, Horatio?" Horatio Jr. would stutter: "I shall be a t-teacher of the ways of God, a p-preach-er of His commandments, a wiberal thinker, a woyal citizen." Schoolmates called him "Holy Horatio...