Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legionnaires from Iowa will sail on the Megantic. Meals in Paris, however, will be excepted from arrangement or routine. Over cafe and restaurant tables Legionnaires will make contact again with waiters to whom food is a poem, drink a philosophy and the tip a sum honorably earned -to be demanded, if necessary, as U. S. small businessmen demand payment of small bills...
...order to test the real demand in the University for golfing facilities, the Athletic Association has made arrangements with the Weld Golf Club, whereby for a period of three weeks, it may issue to members of all departments of the University, tickets entitling the holder to play eighteen holes on the Weld course. These tickets are limited to 100 a day. The cost will be $1.50 per ticket, and they will be on sale at the H. A. A. and at Leavitt and Peirce...
...later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize that writing prose does not necessarily demand substitution of fervent ellipsis for sound and conventional grammar, she may well write a good book...
Whether or not one agrees with Judge Stone's decision in the recent "riot" ease, President Lowell's demand for the resignation of the four policemen whom he cites as having acted with "unnecessary brutality" will be welcomed as a logical sequence in the interests of justice. Heretofore only one of the two parties involved has been brought into formal inquiry; now the other side will be subjected to investigation...
...pleasant thing about a department store, so business men tells us, is that if imported lamp-shades and other fripperies fall to sell, the boots and dresses and draperies will pay the rent; and if such staples are less in demand one month than another, the fripperies, on the other hand, may well serve to keep the woll from the owner's Italio-Greco-Romanesque facade. The Advocate has profited by by this axiom of the trade, and in the last two years has built up a study skeleton of departments--editorials, book-reviews, the special article, and the rest...