Word: asking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vetoed another bill to permit docking horses' tails, commenting: "If the Almighty wanted the bony part of a horse's tail six inches shorter, why didn't He make them grow that way? Don't ask me to assist in changing His plans...
Each year, in the Lourdes bathhouse, a handful of pilgrims are cured of ailments attested incurable by doctors. Fred Snite was neither cured nor disheartened. Said he: "I ask no miracle and do not expect one. I came here to offer my thanks . . . to receive the spiritual strength here to keep on getting better...
Enclosed in each letter were two metered postcards (possible, postage: $800): "Sign one yourself-ONLY IF YOU BELIEVE IN JOHN NANCE GARNER AND HIS PROVEN RECORD and ask some friend to sign the other. . . . Just drop them into the mail; no postage stamps necessary...
...those who want to see acting in its very finest form, those who want to see a top-notch actress in a top-notch role, a drama that has real emotional uplift, those men better take a trip right up to a certain building on the Square and ask for Bette...
Prosecutor Maurice Milligan declared that Tom Pendergast since 1927 had evaded taxes on $1,240,000, did not ask utmost severity (ten years in prison, $20,000 in fines). Judge Otis leniently ordered Defendant Pendergast to pay $10,000, serve 15 months (plus a suspended sentence of three years, five years on probation). If Tom Pendergast lives and behaves, he may have to spend only twelve months in Leavenworth Penitentiary, 40 miles from the city he no longer rules...