Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked the Tulsan. In expiation to outraged Waconians, I concede that Waco is a thriving and beautiful city, probably near the 50,000 mark in population (including Negroes). Although the place is -* with Christians, transcontinental travelers, U. S. Highway 77, Canada to Mexico...
...work hard to make our country strong. . . . Not only Russia but all foreign countries do not give us due respect. . . . If we do not strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many of us know even the scientific way of running our daily Government business...
...success, poured seven bullets from an automatic pistol into the body of the same much-appreciated lion tamer with similar results. Their affection is as remarkable as their marksmanship, 14 shots without a miss, and both protest against the interference of the police in their purely domestic affairs and ask to be reunited in order to continue their almost unbroken record of mutual esteem and forbearance...
...crew of a freighter do what they are told, ask few questions. But last week the German crew of the blunt-nosed broad-beamed Falke, reached the limit of cowed endurance. In Port of Spain, Trinidad, they begged the German consul to take action against their captain, before the dumpy little Falke should be sunk as a pirate...
...Back to Stay and The Meddlers); that Jonathan Jr. studied at schools public as well as private and underwent some tutoring before and during Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1925. He reviews books for metropolitan newspapers and The Saturday Review of Literature. In 1927 he was responsible for Ask Me Too, a juvenile version of the Ask Me Another book of educative questions-answers. Lately he returned to live at Sandwich, Mass., where he guards well the secret of his next book's subject...