Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to explain the true situation to the country," continued M. Jaspar above an uneasy rustling from his Catholic adherents. "I ask the Chamber at a time which is singularly reminiscent of the tragic days of 1914 to give us power to prevent those of our citizens who are without consciences from continuing their odious and absurd campaign against our national currency. They think they are saving their wealth by bartering Belgian francs for a mess of golden foreign pottage. In reality they are compromising the total assets of our country...
...working hours of British miners from seven to eight. As everyone knows, the strategy of this measure (TIME, June 28) is to lure the 1,000,000 striking British coal miners back to work by making it possible for the owners to offer the miners the wage they ask, providing they will work an extra hour. Last week A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, secretary of the Miners Federation, became so fearful lest this strategy succeed that he threatened to order on strike even the "safety pump men" who prevent by their work irreparable damage to the coal mines which would result...
Said Walter Hagen to London reporters: "When people ask me why it is Britishers get licked at golf, I've only got one answer. . . . They're too gosh-darned lazy...
...late Cornelius Vanderbilt conceived the idea of building himself a $1,000,000 home. He did. Its red brick facade with white stone facing, its handsome wrought iron fence, rise in all their French majesty on the south of Plaza Square, Manhattan, a magnificent pile. "But who," you ask, "would want to make it his private home?" Just so. The shutters...
...Yesterday a freakish stunt, today it is a mode of travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...