Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, and usually get to hand him their petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...
...band has had its troubles--there's no question about that either. Ask the Dean's office. There was the Virginia trip that they took, from which they almost didn't return, and there was the Stanford trip, on which they didn't go at all. Their chronic financial ills are well known. Ask the HAA, or better, ask the band's manager. Each year there's the possibility that the band...
...been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother, the daughter of Victoria, had married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. "Naturally," the marquess said last week...
...rang. It was Edward Weeks editor of the Atlantic Monthly, also a Wellesley trustee. Would Miss Clapp have dinner with him? By this time, Miss Clapp had a good idea of what was up. Over brook trout and a bottle of wine at the Ritz-Carlton, Weeks began to ask questions. "Do you sleep well?" he wanted to know. Miss Clapp answered that she did, she was not a worrier...
...Ask Me." As usual, the freshmen came early. In a cold drizzle, four upper classmen with big "Ask-Me" badges on their coats waited impatiently on the station platform for the 9:03 to round the bend. Among its passengers would be the first wave of the Class of '53. The train was half an hour late...