Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Offering his letter of credence Minister MacWhite said: "My government has entrusted to me the very agreeable mission of conveying to you their most sincere good wishes for the continued and increasing prosperity of the great people whose destinies are committed to your care." Replied President Hoover: "I will ask you to convey to your Government my cordial and friendly greetings and my best wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the people of the Irish Free State...
...were used in Washington when Herbert Clark Hoover said, "I do" (TIME, March 11). Several announcers were posted in and about the Slot, more along broad Karl Johans Gade, and a whole battery in Vor Frelsers Kirke, the hoary Church of Our Saviour, where booming Lutheran Bishop Lunde would ask, "Saa til sparger jeg dig, Olaf, for Gud's assym og. I denne Kristne forsamlings nerverelse. vil du have Martha som hos dig staar til din egtehustrn...
...play stress the chills and laughs, not the tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...
...most extraordinary hymn: blood, armies, fame, and glory: with the Creator omitted. May I ask to what god this hymn is dedicated...
...Basin and its bridges, will pay about $500,000, more as its share of the Cottage Farm Bridge, and is paying about $175,000. per year as its share of the original cost of the Basin and the Dam and for maintenance changes. It therefore seems fair to ask that the drive on the Boston side which would help Cambridge traffic should not be omitted on account of the local clamor against...