Word: asks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...ask you a straight question," broke in another Englishman. "What means will you use to find out if a man is drinking in his private time? Will your workmen at Dagenham [new Ford British works] be followed into their homes and penalized for exercising their private rights? Will you give a straight answer to that...
...member of the Royal Commission now examining this phase of the budget proved unsympathetic. "If what you say is so, Sir," he shot back, "may I ask if you could not resume your residence at Hampstead?" Scot MacDonald replied unruffled: "The pressure of affairs of state compels the Prime Minister to live at No. 10.* I am up at 6:30 and rarely go to bed before 10. At 9 in the morning I work with the secretaries' boxes [impressive red morocco affairs: the British statesman's equivalent for a briefcase] and despatches. Then there are all sorts...
...against the bear who uses unethical means (such as rumormongering) to depress prices, was perhaps essentially a move to forestall investigation by Congress. Agitation of this sort was commencing last week. Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York notified the Exchange that if conditions were not remedied he would ask President Hoover to act. Quite to the contrary, shrewd observers noted as a happy sign that many a "little fellow" was now selling short...
...could not ask for a more beautiful ironical study in 100 per cent Americanism than the spectacle of the merchants of Boston solemnly boarding up their plate-glass show windows in preparation for the American Legion convention, while hotel proprietors stripped, their establishments of vases, pictures and other destructible things of value and put them into storage. And accompanying picture is that of boosters from a score of cities, including Baltimore, earnestly beseeching the Legion to come to their respective home towns next year...
...represent no organization," was Mr. Gervers' parting shot. "I only wanted to ask those old fellows to give Youth a chance...