Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these circumstances, which are so grave to our country, I ask all of you inhabitants of the cities and country to maintain an attitude completely correct and dignified, since every inconsiderate act or word can draw in its wake most serious consequences...
...summer of 1930, two Irishmen of the Old Sod-a bookmaker and a politician-put their heads together and figured out a scheme. They would run a lottery on an English horse race, ask the Irish Free State to sanction it, give a fat chunk of the proceeds to impoverished Irish hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals' Trust...
...first woman ever to smoke in public in the U. S. She demanded $25 for newspaper interviews-and got it. She went into telegraph offices and insisted on dictating her wires. Even when, an old woman down on her luck, she went to Hollywood, she refused to kowtow, would ask world-famous movie stars whether they "were connected with the cinema." In no time she had alienated everybody who might have helped her: an awed Alexander Woollcott likened her to "a sinking ship firing on its rescuers." Though Stella Campbell published many of Shaw's letters...
...useless, of course, to deny rumors and to ask for retractions. Once started, the harm is done. May I, however, suggest that the Crimson has editorial responsibility of the same character that any other news organ has. To permit publication of an utterly absurd story of this character can serve no useful purpose. I leave the question of good taste to your own maturer reflections. William Y. Elliott...
...sympathy, Lady Fanny gets from him one stinging slap after an other, including the flat statement that her "love-days" are over. As for the spectre of Mr. Skeffington, "Lay him," says Sir Stilton. "If he haunts you, he must be laid. . . . Make friends with Job. See him often. Ask him to dinner. Lay him, in fact...