Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolini's character and personality carry a strange fascination to Americans . . . especially among the higher classes. . . . It is my opinion that whatever Italy might ask today of American financiers would be conceded without questioning, for Americans like strong peoples...
...other comments: "It is time the public started land-sliding. It surprises me that they didn't start sooner. If this is the beginning of the end, I am more or less ready for it. However, these adverse comments won't take away my appetite. All I ask is that they don't take away the air I fly through. I'll take care of the rest...
...shall never sing again in Viennese opera. . . . I shall sing again in Paris if they ask me. I was received there enthusiastically by the public, but I don't know why I deserved the insulting treat-ment accorded me by the Austrian Legation and Director Schneiderhahn of the Vienna Opera...
...decorations were to be given, I certainly could reasonably expect one worthy of my rank. I didn't ask for the Legion of Honor, but only said the decoration should correspond to my position in the musical world...
...confined my questioning to such decisions as affected the ballot-box fortunes of the Negro in Dixie, and in not one case did Senator Glass either (1) decline to comment; (2) ask me to treat anything he said as confidential; or (3) request me to tone down the fervent quality of his responses...