Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when people ask her, as many do, why with her beauty and renown she does not go back to acting, she declares: "I'm perfectly happy now. I know everybody and I'm recognized in the business world. I don't have to pose for cheesecake and I don't"-unless David O. Selznick, or Hollywood itself, be taken for one-"have to sit on elephants...
...thinking of the tree in the living room back home. Some kid will make a joke and all the guys will laugh but it's not the kind of laugh they used to have when they were with their folks. And after chow they won't ask me to sing Jingle Bells or Ball Game. They'll ask for I'll Be Seeing You or Goodbye Sue. Most of the fellows won't even have the pleasure of eating with a girl from back home or hearing a song because they'll be lying...
Strip Tease. In Red Bank, N.J., a busload of soldiers heard a female voice ask the driver, "Will you wait a minute, please, while I get my clothes on?", twisted their necks out of joint, saw a laundress lift aboard a load of linen...
Akweke Abyssinia Nwafor Orizu, of Manhattan, is a tall, black, sober young man of 24 who calls himself "Prince Orizu." He uses the title only to impress whites with the fact that Africa has traditional governments of its own. His hearers are usually sufficiently impressed to ask what he is prince of. His answer: Nnewi...
...Hugo looked like a Greek god and glittered with "inner fires." He owned a magnificent estate jampacked with foxhounds and liveried "darkies . . . with mirthful grins." Hugo was loved by "the most beautiful girl in ... all the South." But he was afraid that he was a bastard. He could not ask his mother about it because his father had murdered her years ago. So Hugo was ashamed to marry...