Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Massed 7,500 strong in a semicircle in front of the platform, the Sioux listened to their Council's memorial, of which the burden was that the Sioux are too proud to ask for anything not rightly theirs but must insist that the Government restore to them certain lands taken away after supposedly permanent treaty settlements...
...shoot grouse?" was a question which many an American wished but hesitated to ask Britons, last week. The best preliminary advice seemed to be: "First rent your moor...
Louisiana Bundles. "You have no right whatever to stop a person on the street and ask him what he has in a bundle, even though the contents of that bundle take the shape of a bottle. It might be a bottle of something other than liquor," said Judge Louis H. Burns of the U. S. District Court in New Orleans, to the Prohibition agent who arrested one John Masera. When Mr. Masera was accosted on the street by the Prohibition agent, he had quickly smashed his bottle of liquor on the pavement. Judge Burns dropped the charges against Mr. Masero...
...years," said a voice. "Fifty years of invention and achievement. We have shared defeat and success, discouragement and triumph. You have in that time made me a universal messenger of happiness and education to rich and poor. This is my 50th birthday and I have a favor to ask. I want to hear again from your own lips those immortal phrases which you spoke to me half a century ago." So another voice replied: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. The second voice...
Golf is the theme, of course, but so much personality and family background come into the narrative that the opening chapters, especially, are as clear a picture of the average U. S. sportsman's origins and environment as one might ask...