Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
While the Indianapolis drove southward through a storm its wireless crackled. Lest President Agustin Justo of Argentina feel left out, Franklin Roosevelt, even before meeting him, hastened to invite him also to the U. S. Also a request went to Pan American-Grace Airways, that the 40-passenger Pan American Clipper be held at the U. S. President's disposal in case he, having found the fishing much better on land than at sea, decide to return home...
...deny but can't. So I think I must be dead too. An ambulance whisks my body to the morgue, where I am laid on a cold slab. My flesh is cold, the blood dried, and my eyes wide and staring. Lying there naked, I am about to request the attendant to cover me with more than a sheet, when I awake with a strong wind blowing through the casement and on my uncovered self...
...original. Canny Cartoonist Doyle, whose pictorial presentations of the du Fonts have hitherto been distinctly unflattering, assumed that he was talking to a prankster, glibly promised to mail the drawing, did nothing about it. Next morning he read in his paper that Mr. du Pont had actually made the request, hastened to send off the cartoon, with his compliments, for the du Fonts' pleasure. Mr. du Pont will frame the picture, give it to his daughter & son-in-law for a wedding present...
...without sin throwing the first stone may be all very well, but a false idea of politeness has detracted and still does detract from the greatest good of the greatest number--the vaudeville artist of today cannot be trusted to take absence of applause as a request for his departure, especially as someone in the audience (and he needs to be spoken to, too) always thinks everything is funny...