Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ask Editor White to listen to the music of some of the other dance bands such as popular Glenn Miller, Eddie Duchin, Artie Shaw, T. Dorsey, Paul Whiteman, Dick Jurgens, Orrin Tucker, and many more. Then may he tell us what he thinks of the music that is "squawked and shrieked and roared and bellowed...
...temporary chairman called for or der, said Senator Ellender had a message from the President. Boo! "I will now ask the Senator to take the floor." Boo! The Senator reached the microphone, white and shaken. "Fellow Democrats," he be gan,"I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning. ..." Nothing was plain after that; through the surging roar of catcalls and the stamping of feet, whistles and bleacher wit, disjointed phrases echoed out of the loudspeakers: I thought democracy had returned to Louisiana...
...arrived in the U. S. last summer, observed, in her apprehensive English: "I walk through the streets and I do not see children and I do not miss them. I ask myself, why is this? And then I realize that the men have children's faces." A woman with a raft of friends, Diseuse Oswald got for her debut the sponsorship of such child-faced U. S. men as Malcolm Cowley, John Erskine, Langston Hughes...
...more sympathy than many undergraduates I know for certain types of Anglophile and Francophile enthusiasm deriving from sentimental considerations and unconnected with basic American interests. I, too, have many close friends in France and England. But I have such friends as well in Germany and elsewhere. I should ask nothing better than to gather all of these men of good will and, like the Acharnians, to make our separate peace and found that new society on some unmolested desert island. Unfortunately, the world is not so organized...
...last week the President had not yet made it clear to the nation that preparedness against war was not a New Deal program but a national program. Many a stubborn citizen could honestly ask: Am I offering my support to the President or to the Politico...