Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George, younger sons and still resident at Buckingham Palace, ask their mother's permission if they wish to sleep later on any given morning than 8 o'clock, the family rising hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...
...thinking of the facts, that they have not our orchestra, not our chorus, none of our conductors, none of our decorations and none of our technical men? They may perhaps have one or the other of our soloists-but that is not Bayreuth, is it? Could we ask you to give notice to the American Press that this whole enterprise has nothing on earth to do with Bayreuth...
...battle with Col. Stewart, although his routine was likely to suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that he may be more like his father...
Neither the President of the U. S. nor any Cabinet officer is privileged by custom to ask Congress for endorsement or condemnation of any course which he proposes to pursue. Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would be approved by Congress. But in France it is otherwise. There, Parliament can be asked to register approval or disapproval in advance. With intent to ask such a question, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, renowned "Lion of Lorraine," went solemnly last week before the Chamber of Deputies...
...business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine. But Mary stills her mother's blabbing by telling her that the affair is no news to her; she has known it for months. Boyd and his mistress come to Mary to ask her for a divorce but she contemptuously refuses to give up Boyd and wreck a home for an infatuation. Only when Mary's younger sister, Cecily Reid (Helen Chandler) confesses her own affair with her architect-employer, husband of a woman much older than himself, does Mary consent...