Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would indeed deem it a favor should you inform me the mailing address of Dr. Voronoff, as I would very much like to ask him a question in reference to the above...
...train. In Springfield, Ill., I had another parade up to the state capitol. Then a man, who said he was chief clerk of the elections department, told me that I would probably be put on the ballot in November. Then I will be able to ask all the Illinois voters this question: "Should the Congress of the United States modify the federal act to enforce the 18th amendment to the constitution of the United States so that the same shall not prohibit the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, or exportation of beverages which are not in fact intoxicating, as determined...
...onetime (1888) Canadian Minister of Finance: "The reservation, whereby the U. S. demands 'the right of consent,' is virtually a command to the Court-'Thou shalt not do thus and so. . . .' This demand is mandatory and dictatorial. . . . If it is accepted the World Court must ask the U. S. Senate whether it 'has or claims an interest' in every question brought before the Court. Suppose the U. S. Senate is not in session when such a question is put? The ensuing delay would be lengthy if not interminable. . . . There is also the question...
...finest young university woman Australia had produced in this generation. Thereupon they named her "Miss Australia" and awarded her an educational tour of the U. S. Last week she had crossed the continent from west to east. Manhattan newspaper reporters could think of but one thing to ask anyone called "Miss Australia": would she enter the current beauty contest at Atlantic City, where pursy bankers, showmen, hotel loungers and politicians sat in judgment upon the curves and proportions of "Miss Texas," "Miss Georgia," "Miss Idaho," etc., etc.? Beryl Mills did not like to disappoint her interviewers. And she thinks...
...busses, elevated railways? Or perhaps, thought parishioners, Bishop O'Connor in-tended his edict as a rebuke, perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations to the accelerator. Had they been gallopading? Driving with one hand ? Gas-hawking, road-hogging? Amazed that good Catholics could ask such well-nigh blasphemous questions, Bishop O'Connor made answer. For no such ribald reason had he forbidden motor vehicles. He simply felt, he explained, that priests in the city did not need them...