Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol gates into the street the advance-guard of a crowd of 500 Communist demonstrators was rushing pellmell. Their jeers rose into the mild, noon air. Led by a giant Negro, they had marched up the steps bearing banners legended: DOWN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION! DOWN WITH DEPORTATION ! WE DEMAND . . . JUSTICE FOR THE FOREIGN BORN...
...demand conformity in the presentation of doctrine. . . . We can highly value a certain form of ministry, but we are not bound to consider it as necessary in principle to church unity...
...most complex of all: We Demand the Supreme Punishment for Counter-Revolutionaries and the Order of Lenin (highest Soviet decoration) for the Ogpu! (secret police...
Four days later Actress Barrymore collapsed. Announced cause : laryngitis, conjunctivitis. She and her pressagents said she would surely fulfill her Manhattan engagement. Hard-boiled theatre folk remarked that red apples, the Barrymore badge, are, nowadays, the stock-in-trade of Manhattan's unemployed, but the demand for Scarlet Sister tickets was tremendous...
...coast-total flying schedule 28½ hr. But unless the mail load is light, in which case a maximum of four passengers might be taken, the passenger must wait overnight in Chicago for the morning transport, arriving in San Francisco the morning after that. When enough travelers appear to demand it, large passenger planes may be flown regularly on the night schedule. At Salt Lake City the passenger may transfer to another United Aircraft division, Varney Air Lines, to reach Portland, Spokane, Seattle...