Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Oswald Mosley (Laborite son-in-law of arch Tory the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) demand of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain under what treaty rights British troops are being sent to Chinese soil...
Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...
...public demand for a craze is becoming if not less insistent, at least temporarily more sane "Ask Me Another", according to those who know, is the latest of twentieth century parlor games. To be successful in this newest diversion one must be equipped with encyclopedic knowledge, a devilish curiosity, and a detailed information on subjects ranging from to quote examples from the Transcript Wagner to "four important breeds of dairy cattle." The dilettantes will accordingly, remain to blush unseen, for the last requirement of victory is a college education. Ignorance is no longer a la mode...
...than independent lines of action no matter how intelligent and courageous. However, viewed from another angle, the very informality of the arrangement bespeaks at once the mutual confidence of Yale for Harvard and Harvard for Yale; and at the same time promises closer cooperation than the terms themselves would demand...
Other organizations which appear to offer particular opportunities will be approached wherever there is a definite demand on the part of graduates for opportunities in that field...