Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ask that you remove your carcasses without the door." John Llewellyn Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, said that at a convention years ago. He was maledicting radicals, William Z. Foster in particular. Typically of the U. S. labor movement, great-faced Mr. Lewis can talk better against radicals than he can for or against anything else. Since Bolshevism first entered the limited vocabulary of the average citizens (circa 1919), there has never been a convention of organized labor in which it was not denounced. Better that a U. S. labor leader should have his face covered with...
...idiotic rubbish to talk of people protecting their lives with a pistol. A notion seems to be abroad in the land that the people have rights to protect themselves and must have a revolver to do so. We ought to ask the chiefs of police here if they know of a single case in which a citizen was helped in an encounter with a gunman by being armed himself...
...ask the managers to postpone the Boston engagement would be futile since any such request would need figures and collegiate receipts for substantiation; nor is the average college student supposed to wander from the histrionics of Keiths revenues and the Metropolitan. There are however a few devotees of the opera who have succumbed to the allurements of a college education. To them the solution is the old and expensive one the midnight to New York...
...took his chair. Senator Deneen of Illinois came in from the cloakroom with Mr. Smith, who took a lounge seat with the Illinois members of the House. Mr. Deneen addressed the chair: "Mr. President, I send to the desk the credentials of Colonel Frank L. Smith of Illinois, and ask that they may be read...
When Speaker of the House of Representatives Robert Lee Babbitt got up to speak, he roundly flayed the Fergusons. Then rose Mr. Moody. He spoke for less than five minutes. ". . . I ask, as did the Hebrew of old, that God give me now knowledge and wisdom to come in and go out before this people; for who can govern this people that is become so great...