Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ask you, my Democratic friends, is the repeal of the 18th Amendment good Democratic doctrine...
Also there was a song which Will Rogers sang together with Andy Tombes. La-de-da was the refrain of the song and its name was the Lard Song; in the course of it, Andy Tombes interrupted his singing to ask Will Rogers whether he had heard about the Scotchman who went to the whippet races. "Yes," said Rogers, "and he bet on the hare...
...been able to gather from acquaintances who ought to know. Dartmouth is situated on the top of a sky jump somewhere near the Canadian border and was once patronized by one of the Webster boys. But with a few simple rules, such as being careful not to ask if green ties are in honor of St. Patrick and a resolution to avoids embarrassing situations by looking only at the cheer leaders nearest him, the Vagabond hopes to report in good order for Monday's 9 o'clock and wishes his readers the same...
...Stadium is architecture, that of his own university, very satisfactory engineering. Scientists might be called in to measure the wear and tear of the last twenty-five years with delicate instruments in order to ascertain the extent of the Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals of truth for truth's sake as but another symptom of their wondrous merry mood...
...belief that provision for a bi-partisan tariff commission promotes rather than eliminates politics. I would ask Congress to give me authority to appoint a tariff commission of five members from among the best qualified in the country to deal with the problem irrespective of party affiliations, with a salary sufficiently large to induce them to devote themselves exclusively to this important work...