Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ask unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolution," said Norris...
Fussbudgety Senator Fess of Ohio was on his feet. Senator Bingham's eyes traveled trustingly to him. Said Senator Fess: "Mr, President, I ask the Senator [Norris] if he will not allow the resolution to go over." Senator Norris moved his head in the perfunctory assent of one long used to the Senate's delays. Senator Fess sat down. Senator Bingham looked at the back of Senator Norris' head...
Free on $5,000 bond and back in his hotel suite, Fall issued a 3,000-word statement to the public. Said he: "I ask the American people not to believe me guilty of the damnable crime [bribery] of which I am innocent." He admitted only "two grave errors:" 1) "Borrowing" $100,000 from Doheny; 2) Attempting to hide its source from the Senate investigating committee "by an untruth...
...pretty girl who inherits a boys' college and bets her claim to it that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much as the director's obvious uncertainty whether he was making a satire or a straight story. Typical shot: a football hero with a loose shoe...
...lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier had decided to give up, and intended giving as an excuse that I had abandoned him. I immediately sent word that I was ready to collaborate. He gave up anyway, and I am beginning to ask myself whether what he hoped for from me was not collaboration, but refusal, so he could place on me responsibility for his failure...