Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge asked: "Do you think it was funny to murder a man?" "To tell the truth, Judge," said the boy, seriously, "I have lost my mental capacity to explain. . . . I don't want you to think, Judge, that I thought it was funny to kill this man. I thought it was funny for you to ask that question...
...orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking a ship's deck...
...Ahmedabad, India, pupils of the National College noted on their faculty roster a name new to the roster, old in fame-Mahatma† Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Mahatma, well-informed, later asked students what they would have him teach. Eagerly they sought seclusion, consulted. Would it be political history from this great leader who had well-nigh secured Indian independence in 1920 by his famed policy of "passive resistance?" Or sociology?-Gandhi's profound knowledge of the "caste" system was none the less because in 1920 he had failed to persuade the masses and the "untouchable castes" to treat...
...Poincaré, the Senators and Deputies arose refreshed, complacent, found themselves even provided with a special bar outside their meeting hall where viands and vintages of every sort were dispensed at prices far from high. M. Poincaré had not been extravagant in his preparations. He was about to ask the National Assembly to amend the Constitution -a grave step for Frenchmen, whose Constitution had sustained but two amendments since it was promulgated at Versailles in 1875. M. Poincaré would shortly demand that the internal debt of France be irrevocably guaranteed by making constitutional the recently passed legislation (TIME...
...these, able Manhattan cartoonist Ralph Barton filmed with his tiny camera. To newspapermen he said: "I do not have to ask my victim to pose for hours while I sketch him or her. I just shoot a few dozen feet of film and have my prey at my mercy forever after...