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Word: begs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...balls, etc., additional men are invited, but these men receive the cream of all the invitations." The writer goes on to say that the list is made up each spring from the graduates of about four well known preparatory schools, that the Harvard Deans are forced each year to beg Boston hostesses to exclude Freshmen, and that a large number of departing students each year owe their hegira to over-active social duties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Audacious" Undertakes Social Classification of Harvard's 250 in Current Tatler--Names Form Only Basis of Evaluation | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

...workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead who watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Will of a Poet | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...member of the class of 1874, and as a man desirous of standing among those ready to praise moral courage, I beg to thank you for the position taken by the CRIMSON regarding the events and lessons of the very recent disgraceful week, October 5th through October 10th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Disgraceful Week | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

...President Herbert Hoover ever wants to dedicate the $800,000 tomb of Warren Gamaliel Harding at Marion, Ohio, he will have to go, cap in hand, to the Harding Memorial Association and humbly beg its permission. The association is through importuning him to participate in a ceremony for which he apparently has no stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Harding Shelved | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...former editor of the CRIMSON, I beg to protest against your recent editorial against the Legion Convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Et Tu Brute" | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

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