Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President-elect had not, of course, hurried to Washington to ask the Vice President for his gavel or for parliamentary pointers on how to preside over the Senate. For the gavel Senator Curtis can have no use until the business of the Short Session is completed and he has resigned as Senator and has been inaugurated. For parliamentary pointers the Senate's new president, who has ruled over its Republican half since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924), has about as much need as a grandmother has need for instruction in baby-washing...
...ask you, is it rational to send out alleged Bachelors of Arts into the cold world without first having widened their perspective of it by acquaintance with languaged of other nations? Or if this angle of the subject is too remote to penetrate the recesses of your obtuse reuses, then consider but the economic aspect. Have you no hearts? Would'st rob our struggling instructors in French and German of their sole means of livelihood? Vision a typical pathetic case it your diabolical propaganda were allowed to take root, which God forbid...
Potential travelers to the Riviera who think that they can ask every sort of question about the new route at the French Government's Office du Tourisme, No. 4 East 52nd St., Manhattan, may be piqued to discover that certain quaint and prudent conditions are imposed. In an "authorized and official" French Government release it is stated: "Any legitimate questions regarding travel in France, sent to this bureau in good faith will receive quick attention and reply...
...Governor of Texas, as everyone knows, is red-headed Dan Moody, 35. By right of the usual sweeping Democratic majority, he will continue to be Governor for at least two years. And long before he is three-score and ten, he is expected to ask his party to let him do what, in 1928, Smith...
When Jeritza first came to the U. S. it was the fashion for newsmen to ask all Europeans what they thought of prohibition. One approached Jeritza. She smiled a radiant smile, but did not understand the English...