Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris and in Germany, a painting done this year is exhibited this year. There are museums and exhibitions given over to the progress of the living, modern, growing art, but in America you ask 'How old is it?' or 'Do I know the name signed to it?' before it has a chance...
...Cincinnati, Archbishop John T. McNicholas observed the conversion to Roman Catholicism of 70 Negroes, including two onetime Protestant ministers; urged them to train their children for priesthood, sisterhood; said: "I earnestly ask all our colored citizens to consider the position of the Catholic church, to study her teachings, to realize that her ceremonials, her processions, her music are full of a profound meaning which, if understood, could not fail to stir the deepest emotion of the colored race...
Signor Lucetti, jailed, said to the police: "Don't ask me so many questions at once. I am tired. Wait a bit. Give me a glass of water and a cigaret and I will answer all your questions." One hundred percent white Nordics who had supposed that Latins are perpetually emotional were puzzled...
...doing the same thing now? Lacoste had taken the second set; now, encouraged by the appearance of the grass stain, he took the third. Surely, that was all the incentive Tilden could ask for. ... He had his back, at last, where he liked to have it, against a metaphorical wall. Unfortunately, the grass-stain on his flannelings was not metaphorical; and he had-could one believe it?-a perfectly literal limp. He had hurt himself. That was the plain prose...
...watching them burn away." One evening she wrote: "The secrets of life that are discovered from age to age are as hard to find as a knife lost in rushes." She sympathized with the American colonists and aroused by George Ill's banishment of traitorous Jack Wilkes to ask: "Why is it that dogs are never hunted by weasels...