Word: beg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter referred to the book of common prayer, last court of appeal in Episcopalian disputes, which says: "... No man shall be ... suffered to execute any of the said functions [of the ministry] . . . except ... he hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination." Said the bishop's letter: "I must earnestly beg you, and I do hereby officially admonish you, not to carry out your plans for the above-mentioned communion service at St. George's Church." Furthermore, the bishop characterized the policy of the Christian Unity League as "a strangely mistaken and a clearly disruptive one. The members...
Relying on your American honesty and integrity I beg to remain...
...beg the New York Times to issue a categorical and sharp denial of these absurd and irresponsible stories. . . . I not only authorize, I implore you to protest energetically in my name against the ridiculous distortions of my scientific work by popular journalism, which represent me as an inventor of a specific against idiocy."-Dr. Eugen Steinach, to the New York Times Vienna correspondent last week...
...hardly think TIME can claim to be "on its toes" in the Cinema column. So we beg you to fear nothing. When Cinema officials encourage cinema directors to muckrake sewers for ideas give your critics a free hand to tell...
...Simply -" Sirs: I beg to advise that your cinema reviews are simply -.* Two cases in point appear in TIME, Aug. 12. The one having to do with Street Girl would have kept me away from that picture. The one about The Single Standard would have fortified me in my hour of waiting to get into the Capitol to see it. The two pictures merited just the opposite treatment. Street Girl was splendid entertainment, the acting capable and mature. The other could fix the attention only of one who had never been places, who was attracted by the liquefaction of Garbo...