Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in Natchitoches, La., reputed third oldest city in the U. S.** Negroes lolled in the park and pointed to a little hillock. "Are yoh a good niggah, Sam?" asked one. "I sure am. What make yoh ask silly questions, boy?" said Sam. "Den, yoh goin' to have a statue on dat spot over dere." And at the base of that statue will be the inscription: The Good Darky of Louisiana. Erected by the City of Natchitoches in Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana. Donated by J. L. Bryan...
...when a wealthy friend celebrated the Christmas season by sending you my name plus five dollars. I have never before heard of a subscribee-so far as I know, therefore, I am THE Original Subscribee. I am not writing either to praise or blame TIME, but merely to ask your aid. I examine the wrapper of my copy carefully each week, and I am distressed to note that the expiration date thereon has not yet been advanced to include 1927. This embarrasses me. I am given to understand that I have been brought up genteel, and somehow...
...hours they argued. "You can't tell me old man Doheny is a crook," said one juror. "Didn't these Navy men [onetime Secretary Denby and Captain John K. Robison, who lost the rank of Rear Admiral because of his connection with the oil scandals] go and ask him to bid on the contracts...
...answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...
...ask me whether I am a Southerner, my reply must be?one kind but not all kinds. The solidarity of the South is no longer a source of pride, but of humiliation to many of its most devoted...