Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stand anything but a sneer. A sneer gets my goat. But you pretty often sneer, at least I think you do; but maybe it is unintentional, so I write to ask...
...sadly misunderstood by a large proportion of your readers. Also, and what is more to be deplored, this attitude on the part of an uncultured list of subscribers seems to have reacted on you to the point of lowering the literary standard of the paper. May I not ask you, in the name of excellence of language, to go on with your publication, maintaining the same standard with which it started, even if all the babbitts would have it otherwise...
...fine actress, a rare artist of the kind that comes but once in a generation, a bit of a sorceress, if you ask me."?Alexander Woollcott...
...gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby man, his collar turned up to his neck," who stopped her on a Paris street to ask for money; Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Anton Rubinstein, Lord Northcliffe, Jean de Reszke, Nellie Melba...
Read TIME from cover to cover. Then ask yourself the following questions. An able reader should answer 80% or more correctly...