Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife one afternoon White House newshawks asked: "Mrs. Roosevelt, how would it be if we grabbed our racquets and got out on the White House tennis courts sometime?" Replied the First Lady: "Why, most certainly. Any time you boys want to play those courts are there for you." Request No. 2 was: "And, Mr. President, what about the swimming pool some of these hot afternoons?'' Shot back the President: "Yes and there's also those sand boxes we've put out there for the children. You might try them...
...falsifying his attendance record. As to the truth of the charges we have no knowledge, but the fact that the victim is chairman of the Teachers' Committee to Protect Salaries raises at least some unfortunate suspicions. Many teachers asked for a public trial for the victim--a reasonable request--and when this was refused by the board, began a demonstration. Here again the limits of decorum may have been passed, but surely it was stupid for the board to call policemen with clubs to cope with an outburst of indignant emotion, and still less wise to suspend...
...came." He has had two rides on Pegasus; he wants no more. This abrupt reverence would be a rare phenomenon in any day. Anything Poet Housman had to say would carry authority to a multitude of readers. Few years ago, in answer to a U. S. request for a definition of poetry, he replied that he "could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, but that I thought we both recognized the object by the symptoms which it provokes in us." Last month, before a Cambridge audience, he finally told the world what he thinks about...
...riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...