Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both political and economic. The Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize him, he asked, to send a circu- lar memorandum and questionnaire to their governments, inviting collaboration and suggestions as to the form which a "United States of Europe" might finally take? It was little enough to ask ? after such a luncheon. Unanimously the guests voted as Host Briand wished?a mere gesture...
...personal feud between them has been relentless. Last week Statesman Hughes had his revenge for what happened in 1923. By persuading Yachtsman Marks to vote unexpectedly against a vital labor measure sponsored by Mr. Bruce, he caused the defeat of the Government. The Prime Minister was obliged to ask dissolution of the Dominion Parliament, thus necessitating a general election. Swan Song. Flushed and angry was the mien of Prime Minister Bruce as he stood up before Parliament in the new Australian Capital of Canberra to announce that the election will be held Oct. 12. He had been in power...
...Georgia, the wife who sent him there was implicitly condemned by the press for jealousy and revenge on the strength of Burns's story in the American. Last week Mrs. Burns, through Attorney Theodore William Miller of Chicago, filed libel suit against the American. Shrewd, she did not ask millions (as is usually the case ) for the destruction of an obscure reputation. She asked only $100,000, on the following charges: 1) aiding and abetting Convict Burns to "falsely and maliciously set himself up as a hero who was greatly wronged by his wife . . . making a hero...
...looked as though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...
Memorable to the author is this tale: The President has allowed the children to go swimming with their clothes on. Mrs. Roosevelt, afraid that they might catch cold, bustled off for a homely medicine. " 'Father, won't you ask her not to give us ginger?' He looked at us quizzically. 'Children!' he said, 'I don't dare interfere. I shall be fortunate if she does not give me ginger...