Word: beg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Cleveland's Boy Scouts, caused a flurry of japes, jibes and ridicule in the nation's press. All Boy Scouts suffered when journalistic smartcrackers suggested ways and means for Cleveland's Boy Scouts to accost women on the street, ask them if they smoke, beg them to refrain...
...Kansas City convention to George W. Norris of Nebraska, the most Insurgent Republican Senator of them all, and ask him to be Number Two Man on the Hoover ticket? Did Senator Norris refuse, and did Senators Howell of Nebraska and Brookhart of Iowa then call on Senator Norris and beg him to reconsider? And did Senator Norris then refuse a third time? Such were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek denial or confirmation from busy Nominee Hoover...
...Farrell, always sensitive, had been made self-conscious by being elected the best dressed* professional golfer for the second year in succession. They said that he had been unlucky in being paired with Jones, who was followed by such a big gallery that Farrell was forced at times to beg the marshals to clear a lane for him to swing his club in. When the third round began, Farrell was seven strokes behind...
...Dear American friends, we humbly beg you to appoint some one who will abstain rigorously from sentimentalism and who quite simply from day to day will keep us informed as to what you really are thinking...
Having happened to read in TIME, April 9, that my father, Vladimir de Pachmann the pianist, is a Jew, and that assertion being quite inexact, I beg you to rectify that error as soon as possible (if possible in the next issue of your magazine...