Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of these requests are quite baffling. For instance, a Florida attorney wrote us not long ago to ask if he could reprint a story our Science editor had written about displaced rats. For reasons that seem highly emotional, the attorney figured that the story would be a perfect analogy for a treatise he was writing on "Present Tides Of Immigration From Other States Into Florida...
Something New. Harry Truman was not ready for any serious political pronouncements. He dropped in at the press lounge several times, once to invite newsmen to take a swim with him. Someone asked if he would hold a press conference. "Not if I can help it," he declared promptly. When urged, he added: "Well, maybe, if you can think of some questions-and let me ask them." On his last visit, his Jeff Davis beard was gone. Bess Truman and Margaret were arriving that day, he explained...
...sentence was death-by hanging. Earlier, greeting his U.S. defense counsel, Tojo had said: "I am prepared to meet my Maker. If the verdict is against me, I shall not ask for my life, and I do not want you to ask MacArthur for my life." When he had heard the sentence, he said it was a "victors' trial"-meaning, what else could a sensible Japanese expect? Outside, under a tree, his wife and daughter wept...
...Swedish damsel, Flanders jade, A dark Eiran colleen, A Chink, a Jap, a Negro maid, A primitive Slovene, Let chance but send a wench of these To mop our dusty floor, To wash our dinner dishes, please-We do not ask for more...
...that she called: "Hello, dahling, I'm sorry you don't recognize me with my clothes on." Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the expert on sex statistics, recently tried to get an interview with her, but the matter was dropped when Tallulah agreed "on condition that I can ask you the same questions." Visiting the White House on the heels of a group of reformed women prisoners, she made Franklin Roosevelt roar with laughter at her first words to him: "We'll get along swell. You like delinquent girls...