Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys did feel very ashamed of themselves, so much so, in fact, that the next request they made was for the "Bells of St. Mary's" in honor of Julian Coolidge...
Things were getting pretty desperate. Finally came the request for "I Don't Want to Go to Bed." "Well, well," said the announcer, "Roger Merriman voices a cheerful complaint "I Don't Want to Go to Bed.' Well, stick with us, old boy. Sorry we haven't your record...
...Office of Arms & Munitions Control for licenses to peddle their wares in Burgos or Madrid. In each case, gimlet-eyed Chief Joseph Coy Green, who used to curdle the blood of lazy Princeton freshmen with his drill sergeant ways, would either wheedle or scare the applicant into dropping his request...
Such last week were the miscellaneous harbingers of a new Congress, but there were others more specific. Representative Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, hulking ex-newshawk who three months ago sent the Clerk of the House the draft of a bill with the request that it be the session's Bill No. -an honor which Wright Patman of Texas won at the last two sessions for his Bonus Bill-got it back all neatly printed. Before a battery of cameramen he marched up and dropped it in the hopper (see cut). It was free publicity for a pet project...
...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. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...