Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present situation has led to a just demand for a change, for a liberalization of the system. And having considered the request, Lehman Hall has responded that there are many objections to be overcome. An unlimited freedom, where a man could sign for his own meals in any House and have the slip counted in his own quota, presents, it claims, many obstacles. The amount of book-keeping, already great, would be enormously increased, and require expensive additional clerks. Convenient or peculiarly attractive Houses would soon become eating centers, and would be overcrowded; under such conditions, bound to be unstable...
...Tried to ignore the clamoring, rioting unemployed but had to listen to their parliamentary champion, "Grandpa" George Lansbury, Leader of the Labor Party, who shouted, "I demand that the damnable 'means test'* be abolished and every man given a chance of decent existence...
While Czech police grimly looked on, a mass meeting of 10,000 Slovaks wildly cheered Separatist Father Hlinka who continued, "We Slovaks have our own traditions. We demand the dismissal of every Czech official in Slovakia...
...possible that even for a two dollar ticket there is no such demand for football games this year as there was in other years. Sports psychology from the standpoint of tickets is peculiar. There is feverish excitement and mad ticket hunting only when tickets are scarce. The Holy Cross game was an example of that last year. Three days in advance of the game 40,000 tickets had been sold. Seventeen thousand tickets were purchased between the Wednesday and Friday noons preceding the game. Notwithstanding the fact that announcement was made then that the game was sold out, there were...
...from excessive drinking, love-making, and idling, by his demure, straight-laced stenographer is made even more ludicrous when by chance she reveals to the smitten Henry that she has murdered her husband, for having his mistresses for tea, a custom which would eventually cause drastic changes in the demand and supply of tea in France. Finally, to the gratification of Dewlip's best friend, Jelliwell, he goes back to an amicable relationship with Mrs. Jelliwell, for which he can scarcely be blamed, while the stenographer and Mr. Jelliwell, who have been misinforming each other, decide they will have...