Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know there's something about being blind that makes people want to ask you questions," he went on to say. "I'm sure that many people who see me every day believe, and always will believe, that I can see. In fact some of them ask me. The most popular query however, is how I can enjoy smoking when I can't see the smoke. But to that question, I always ask in turn if that is the questioner's reason for smoking. At the invariable answer of 'yes' I always suggest that such a person might save money...
...then read that because a large number of alumni agreed upon the plan of a Memorial Church in place of Appleton Chapel, we should all either support them or be silent. It would perhaps not not be irrelevant to ask what Harvard is; the alumni, who love to chat over their old college days, and who occasionally reach deep into their pockets for the University, or the undergraduates, the graduate students, and the officers, who live its daily life. We do not wish to be petty and nagging, by calling undue attention to what cannot be remedied; but we confess...
...watching spiders fight. The article reminds us of President Coolidge's Washington's Birthday address in which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention on the incidental fact that Washington was a good businessman. Ask the writers of the article to clean the spiderwebs from their minds by reading a little about Benedict Spinoza, or, if they have not the leisure (or the intelligence) and if they have any faith in the judgment of the great contemporary philosophy slogan-maker, refer them to this sentence...
...ask you to correct an error which occurred in your Feb. 7 issue? The item reads: "Mrs. Coolidge received the graduating class of Public School No. 47 of New York City. They were deaf. She talked to them in sign-language which she had learned when she taught in a school for deaf-mutes at Northampton, Mass...
Since Foreign Ministers Stresemann and Chamberlain were both in Geneva, last week (See THE LEAGUE) , newsgatherers rushed in to ask Sir Austen the nature of relations now existing between Britain and the Soviet Republics. He, obviously displeased at the question, answered shortly: "Very...