Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopt the smoking of cigarettes, and whereas this purpose is being more and more plainly announced, it is felt to be the duty of this council to declare that the now-appearing billboard advertisement which portrays a young lady reading a letter to the effect that girls who seek pleasure in smoking are flocking to that given brand of cigarette, is an advertisement which merits strong disapproval and censure, because it is a flagrant luring and seductive effort to entice the girlhood of America to the habit of smoking...
...then call on Senator Norris and beg him to reconsider? And did Senator Norris then refuse a third time? Such were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek denial or confirmation from busy Nominee Hoover, whose door is guarded by a chubby secretary and the expletive: "A lot of foolish nonsense!" (see LETTERS...
Jugoslavian Foreign Minister Vojislav Marinkovitch said that the cabinet would not resign, would seek to rush ratification of the Treaty of Nettuno through the Skupshtina in the absence of the Croatian Deputies...
...Regarding the Nationalists [see Strongest Man], we are ready to treat with them on a basis of equality. In fact, we are already conducting negotiations, but they are at a standstill for the present, due to the lack of unity within the national Government. If they seek to exclude us and make peace on their own terms naturally we will not have anything to do with them...
Since dictators are proverbially above honor, dueling, and stooping to answer open letters, General Primo de Rivera contented himself, last week, with observing to reporters: "My position does not permit me to be at the disposition of persons who, thinking themselves damaged by my statements, would seek to involve me in a personal dispute...