Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After repeating his Water Power stand) "Now, I have made that perfectly clear. . . . I ask Mr. Hughes to ask his candidate the same question that he asked...
...Raskob's ethical sense is so fine and his general sensibilities so readily aroused, it might be worth while to ask how it happens that he has my mail. Did he himself rifle the mails or did some of his Tammany stool-pigeons...
...which Nominee Smith's proposal of a non-partisan Tariff Commission was represented as a proposal to take Tariff control away from Congress, the Smith retort was: "What is the idea of all that? . . . I never suggested that the power of Congress be handed over to a commission, . . I ask that the Tariff Commission be rehabilitated and be strengthened, that the right type of people be appointed to it ... to lay before Congress and the people of the United States the underlying facts that sustain the reason for every change in a tariff schedule...
Dying at 72, Artist Stuart's brushwork remained unimpaired, though he is said to have been forced to ask a friend (George Brimmer) to sign a canvas for him, his hand being too shaky. As a rule he neither signed nor completed portraits. His daughter Jane is said to have completed many of them for him, his interest ending when he had done the face...
...doesn't look for reason in a parade, just as one doesn't look for rhyme in a campaign song. The seeker after truth who inquires here for that which above all things beareth away the victory must ask of the winds which far around with fragments of confetti and cottonballs strewed the streets...