Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long standing tradition that Shakespeare's plays are to be relegated to the bookshelf until a Margaret Webster or Maurice Evans sees fit to put them on the boards is being put to the acid test this week by Boston's Tributary Theatre group. Critics who ask whether the bard's works should be produced at all if they cannot be done to the king's taste are being answered, and all those who saw the Shakespeare Festival launched Tuesday night with Eliot Duvey's "Hamlet" know that the answer...
Short story: Davie Staff, date, too many Singapore Slings, birdies, silent date, fireman's carry, six flights, good night ladies. Martin C. Smith, who fears no pen, is accused of resting up on Friday afternoon and evenings--"What for?" ask his inquisitive roomies
...ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my Lord and my people...
...overestimate it or assume that it was perfect and irreplaceable. It was not perfect, especially for Churchill. A story of a recent conversation between Churchill and his Moscow Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, went the London rounds last week. After all the war years, Churchill was impelled to ask the British diplomat closest to the Moscow Government...
...Rooseveltian press conferences came the first tip-offs on such big stories as the recognition of Russia, the devaluation of the dollar, TVA. War inevitably diminished the frankness of the give & take (and though the President himself became increasingly impatient with these insatiably curious guests he had invited to ask him questions), the Rooseveltian press conference at its best was a needed girder in the U.S. democratic structure; it was, like its British counterpart, the Prime Minister's question period in the House of Commons, a chance for the people to ask questions of their Executive. This...