Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ask the salesman his name and thus secure his business card...
...great man's house. Present the salesman's business card for identification. Ask for and receive the rings. Disappear...
...Well, frankly," said Vicar Hornsby, "I must say I do not regard John Peel as a hero, and I deplore his exaggerated and legendary reputation as a hunter. I ask you whether slaughtering thousands of innocent foxes is sufficient reason for exalting a man when nothing else can be put to his credit...
...Were a man from Mars, or the moon, to visit the earth, and ask us what we considered the highest form of human expression, we would answer, 'Poetry'. If he were to ask then what were the highest human ideals, we would reply, 'Truth and virtue'. If he were to be informed that our highest form of human speech was not designed for expression of our best ideals he would probably return to the moon with a strange idea of our earth, where we kept our best speech for our second best thoughts...
Poetry that teaches is not, he said, the same as didactic poetry. We ask the poet to teach only in his own fashion and mind his own lessons. We protest against didactic poetry; we resent its incompetence...