Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Drew Pearson reported that "The Hat" was once again in line for the job of Allied High Commissioner in Rome. Cracked LaGuardia: "I understand Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count." Later he snapped at newsmen: "Don't ask silly questions." And even after President Roosevelt hinted that there might soon be a new assignment for him, the little mayor kept mum. He sent Manhattan newsmen a curt note: "I have an assignment with my dentist." Leaving City Hall that night, he rudely barked: "I'm going to clean up the streets tonight...
Timesman Reston put the Russian attitude in a nutshell: "Her attitude is that we should not ask her to give up the Baltic States any more than she should ask us to give Texas land back to Mexico...
Something for Justice. When Hatch continued to prod, Waxey pounded the table, glared at the Senator and began to ask questions himself. Senator Hatch tried to brush them aside. Waxey shouted: "Don't give me no deviated answers...
Graduated from Harvard in 1907 (a Phi Beta Kappa, he did four years' work in three, edited the Advocate, contributed to the Harvard Monthly, and published a volume of undergraduate verse), the 21-year-old Brooks stopped in New York to ask William Dean Howells how one should set about being a writer. ("He knew as well as I that there was no answer.") After a try at newspaper reporting, he took steerage passage to England...
Several days from Sydney, the skipper was ordered to put in at a New Guinea port. Mrs. Shake told a party of officers who went ashore to be sure and ask around for Lieut. Hugh Fox Shake. They did. Bossing the foundry and machine shop at the port was Hugh Fox Shake...