Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moirrarty's Ask a policeman...
...biscuits were hard. The music was wild and the crowd wilder. The chaperones were good and their wives "gooder." The decorations were pretty and the girls prettier. The costumes were rare and the dancing was rarer. It really was a good party, if you don't believe it ask someone who went...
Joseph Krutch, in an article in the current Nation, inspired by the performance-of "The Master Builder" in New York, points out that Ibsen in his later plays worked under the rule. "My business is to ask questions, not to answer them." It is to be noted that, although he stayed by this idea, Ibsen answered a very pressing question of New York producers last year, and bids fair to do the same this season; to wit: "What shall we play to stave off what promises to be a remarkably dull season...
Each speaker will gave a 25 minute talk outlining his standpoint and enumerating his arguments. Following this 20 minutes will be granted each man to ask questions of the other about his opinions on evolution...
...dollars, and earned my state the title, Land of the Boobs,' said I, caustically, to Indianapolis newsgatherers. 'When I go elsewhere I railed on, 'people don't kid me any more about being from the state of authors. "Is your governor- still in jail?" they ask, and "How's the Ku Klux Klan?" Even with Senator Watson crying "You're a liar!" the Indiana Republicans cannot deny that D. C. Stephenson, Klan dragon and now a convict, was their big cheese, and that they dealt with...