Word: beg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply: "... I am a member of the General Arthur St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, composed of representative Indianapolis women who have protested against the President's Supreme Court ideas. I have seen your reply, regrettably fallacious and addressed to 'Dear General.' I would beg to inform you that the General, worthy patriot that he was, has been inaccessible to letter-writing since his death in 1818-one would suggest that both you and your secretary inform themselves both about history...
...further impression created by your article is that hotel accommodation in London is virtually unobtainable, and that conditions are chaotic. Here again I beg to correct you, as my company has a good supply of medium-class space available at prices not ridiculously high...
...corporate mazes of super-holding companies. There is a short blackout which permits Will Rogers to drawl his celebrated mot: "A holding company is where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you." There are scenes in which consumers vainly protest their light bills, farmers vainly beg for electric service, a parent explains to his little daughter that the Government would be inefficient if it tried to supply electricity. The little daughter, observing that the people trust the Government to run the post office, concludes: "The people are awfully drunk...
...Spanish Revolution, Marie's granddaughter Marie (Annabella, this time a blonde) tumbles off Wings of the Morning, her grand mother's Derby candidate, into the life of Kerry (Henry Fonda). When Kerry swaps Marie six nags for Wings of the Morning, the gypsies make her go and beg her bargain back. What makes the scene confusing for Marie is that she still has on trousers, and that Kerry is bathing in a small tin tub; Sex, however, is established on its conventional lines by the time Kerry's Destiny Bay runs against Marie's Wings...
There in a squalid hovel of mats she teaches her children to beg, goes out alone in the midst of rioting to help loot a rich merchant's house. Though trampled and nearly shot, she gets away with a pouch of jewels. She gives them to Wang, keeping only two pearls-"not to wear-I am too plain-but to look at when I am alone...