Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four curiously wrought pieces of iron with holes punched in them. They were left by one A. H. Kellerman, 70-year-old Wisconsin farmer, who said: "Just give these to the President and ask him if he knows what they are." President Coolidge took one look and said: "They don't fool me. I know what they are. They're ox shoes. I've nailed many of them myself." ¶ To represent the U. S. as "observers" at the International Telegraph...
...before works, in conservatism. Bishop Candler is, of course, a Dry. His brother, the late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters and last week, just before Bishop Cannon's Asheville conference, he said so in a letter addressed to the Atlanta Journal but meant for consumption by Bishop Cannon and friends. "Offering...
...relatives sometimes ask us to lunch at the Ritz when they come to New York, but that's really little help when you're starving and can't pay your rent...
...Rivera, Marques de Estella and Dictator of Spain. Excitement over His Majesty's return coincided with a furore of curiosity about His Excellency. Gossip-loving courtiers envied King Alfonso more than usual, because he was, last week, perhaps the only man in Spain who could with propriety ask Dictator De Rivera just what is the state of his relations with the Señorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 25). When King and Dictator clasped hands, last week, and retired for a most private conference, baffled Spaniards were left in disgruntled suspense 'concerning' the National Scandal...
...greatest of all money marts, silence is neither golden nor popular. The greater the tumult, the greater the profits of the traders, the more stocks and bonds are being sold and resold, the more money is being borrowed and relent. Last week, the powers of The Street prepared to ask New York's Board of Aldermen to still the noises of riveting, pile driving. But it was to spare their ears for the more important sounds of money-changing...