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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compatriots will never forget. I can see their mouths water - literally speaking, I've been hungry - when they read in big head lines that it was going to be distributed to apease their hunger and calm their anxiety. Now you think of their embarrassment when going to ask for a little food they are bruskely, insolently turned away. To substantiate the above I have in front of me a letter from my sister - one of the storms victims - which I will translate in part: "This hurricane was worse than the storm of 1899 (she writes). "We had to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...greatest assembly of stars ever perpetrated without a revival. This is so much the feature that the feminine gender has been totally neglected. Anyone who hopes for tiller of Hoffman girls will have to take them, not a bad idea. Even if it seems extravagant to take them, ask them anyhow, as they probably have a conflicting matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAY'S THE THING | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

Your subscriber, Mr. Hammerel of Minneapolis, accuses you of partiality toward Smith. But I have for some weeks, as a reader seeking facts, been intending to ask if you were not rather strongly Hooverized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...their demands on time and energy of men whose resources are already taxed as an executive place in a corporation. The counter attractions to the part of student leaders that are now making themselves felt will be doubly powerful in a decade. Undergraduates of a future day may ask financial recognition of their role as student executive. This recognition might not be large, but sufficient partially to atone for the sacrifices which the responsibility entails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...Tuesday the ninth you came to the Harvard Democratic Club as a liberal Democrat and gave reasons why the present Republican regime should be brought to an end. As we do not feel, however, that the reasons you gave for this change were either clear or fully developed, we ask you to answer fully the following questions in order that liberals may see just where you and the Democratic Party stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to Senator David I. Waish | 10/11/1928 | See Source »

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