Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to your friend's home and you wanted a drink of water, how would you ask to go to the kitchen?-"I'd say, 'If you don't mind will you let me go to the sink to get some water...
Died. Ward Crenelle Foster, 79, founder of the "Ask Mr. Foster" Travel Service; after a three-month illness; in Coral Gables, Fla. Despite his slogan, his 75 offices in the U. S. and Canada were run by women-"We tried men at first, but they were...
...finally come to what looms large as an all-important question, one which most people ask themselves when confronted by a work of abstract art: "What is the artist trying to say?". This is a much less important question than the number of times that it has been asked might indicate. But it must be dealt with. First of all, what is any artist trying to say? Is the content of any good painting so entirely divorced from the form in which it is expressed that it can be separated from the form and set up as the idea...
Captain John Townley's comments were laconic and anything but epic. "Well, I mean to say, I better not discuss that. . . . You mustn't ask too many questions. . . . Then a number of things happened, I can't say when. . . . Don't ask where...
Next day there was a great waving and yanking of the old school tie in the House of Commons. Up rose Sir Annesley Somerville, ex-Eton master, to ask what would become of Britain without the public-school spirit. Cried Laborite H. B. Lees-Smith: "Life in a boarding school is a crowd life, a herd life. . . . This unnatural system has resulted in virtually two nations. The masses, educated in State-controlled day schools, never come into contact with the sheltered lads of Harrow and Eton...