Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Producer Firth Shephard begged her to take Arsenic on tour to get away from the bombs, she murmured: "Where do you suggest we start, dear - Dover?" When crusty Critic James Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...
enough. Take , who presides. He has been playing along with them all the time. Now he is trying to ram his pals down our throats." . . . People were speaking from all sides of the great room. I rose and said: "Let me suggest to you that you hold a hand vote on Hanzelgruber whose name was suggested." They did, and a vast majority wanted him. Hanzelgruber was the new mayor...
Maroni: "I suggest you went beyond what you might have mistakenly considered your duty when you tortured patriots, had their nails pulled off, their teeth torn out, their bodies kicked and blows rained on their heads so that some lost their reason and most are ruined men, finished men with no future...
Tired of having their students delve exclusively in the musty attics of the past, Western Reserve's graduate faculty began thinking of a program in contemporary U.S. culture several years ago, finally got it going last spring. Students may suggest any topic they like, do their own investigating. Leslie Collins spent two weeks each (mostly on the road) with Dancer Dunham, Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson...
...enthusiastic but necessarily incomplete report infected the Generalissimo, who instructed the Chinese National Resources Commission to continue the Savage investigation. To do this job, the Chinese asked the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for technical help. They did not suggest a loan...