Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps we should say rather the 'bad boy,' of German dramatists. Since the death of the terrible Wedekind, there has been no playwright so disturbing to German complacency as this small, keen, dynamic Hasenclaver, with his terrifying piercing eyes. . . .The sensationalism of Hasenclaver is hardly important enough to demand very serious consideration abroad, yet the originally and the daring of his plots which have stirred so much discussion in Europe deserve more attention than they have received in America...
Thus President de Valera is clearly moving with extreme moderation, considering the existence in the Free State of a strong 100%-republican faction whose demand is "Down with the King...
...early May it will be selling a radio of its own make. Said Columbia President Herman E. Ward, newly elected, "It may be a startling policy in American industry, but Columbia will defy the modern fetish of mass production. The receiving set we are now manufacturing . . . will create demand volume which we shall supply-that and no more...
...important collectors were persuaded to buy U. S. art by soft-spoken William Macbeth: Miss Lizzie Bliss, Hotelman Edwin A. McAlpin, Hugh D. Auchincloss, Financier Stephen V. Harkness. Collector Emerson McMillan had such a passion for pictures that he used to come in with a little red notebook and demand...
...Ludington, Mich., at a meeting of the county supervisors, Supervisor Karl L. Ashbacker interrupted, during a colleague's speech: "Supervisor Morse used the word 'Depression.' I demand he be fined $1." Snapped smart Supervisor Ole Clines: "And you repeated the word, so let's have a dollar from...