Word: asks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...group which met last week in Geneva for the seventh time is The League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Once upon a time what they sought was "disarmament," but last week Dutch Chairman Jonkheer Dr. J. Loudon opened the session with these words: "We must ask the public to break its habit of referring to disarmament in connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President...
...common experience nowadays to do so for quite another purpose. Often you find on arrival stores of liquor present that you don't want, but it is usually offered to you. "Washington, from being a very desirable place, has become a very undesirable place. ... If you ask me if the liquor situation in America is improving or growing worse, I'd say, from my observations, worse - decidedly worse! It is really embarrassing to visit there today." In advance of the Royal Commission's report, rumors were current last week that Air Minister Baron Amulree and asso ciates...
...Nick....ah, there Charlie .... and a very good evening to you too Walter....sure, filet Winter Place, and a lot of ice....no, you mug, in the glasses....this certainly seems like old times....you don't know how we old grads....who threw that?....who threw, it, I ask you?....right down my shirtfront crabmeat cocktail....somebody's going to get pasted....Ohoooo, did I?....I always said those forks were too small....well, happy days....and a great pleasure I'm sure.... hey, waiter....POP....Rheims....Epernay....hmmmm, the Widow Cliquot....POP....and very nice...
...jail too?....for driving a taxi around the Yard at six this morning?....with the cornet player from the Somerset band?....serves them both right....I will not....I haven't enough money....ball comes high around here....I won't do it....he has all our tickets?....omigod....ask the janitor if he'll run down to the station and find out if they'll take a cheque....take it away....take it away....I don't want any....I'm through with it I tell you. . . .no not just a little bit. . . .hair of the dog. . . . hair...
Chore 1. His Majesty must open Parliament. Scot MacDonald brought him his speech, written by the Cabinet. He must say, chiefly, that "my Government" proposes to ask the Parliament to repeal the Trade Union...