Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While personally I have every reason to deplore and despise night clubs and their hostesses and patrons, still I do think you are a bit hard on women-we are only what men make and demand of us. Man supports these places and this type of woman, please be fair...
...people of Palestine cannot and will not tolerate the present absolute colonial system, and urgently insist upon and demand an alteration...
Having described how horse meat is palmed off upon Americans in Paris, why did you not add that "smart Americans" who make any pretense of being gourmets now occasionally demand fillet de cheval in Paris, simply because it is more delicious than what I suppose TIME would call "many a beefsteak...
...people of Belgium are 90% in favor of Cardinal Mercier's inscription. Students of the University, even the workmen who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...
When several days succeeded this assault without any demand for satisfaction being made by London upon Rome, the British Labor press bitterly recalled that at least three members of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet are notoriously Mussoliniphile...