Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressing his weariness in an epigrammatic speech when-what do you think?-a beautiful pair of legs goes by. The pursuit, tailored with a good deal of deft comic detail, leads in and out of bedrooms and round and round a jealous husband until, at Kathryn Carver's request, a waiter removes a pot of flowers to expose, on the other side of the table, the lovelorn face of Mr. Menjou. At this point you are conscious that you have been fairly well entertained though by no means as well as in some other Menjou-Vajda stories...
...here let us draw the well over this touching scene. And let us forever look askance at any proposal to abolish the present language requirements from fair Harvard. (Name withheld by request...
...held their convention in Paris, they were addressed by Scapini. General Perishing and the other leaders of the A. E. F. were so impressed with the personality of this blind soldier that they urged him to visit the United States the following year. It is in accordance with this request that Scapini is here at the present time having been the sole official French representative to the sole American Legion Convention at San Antonio, Texas last month...
Some members of the Federation wanted to explain. But one old, wise lady, Mrs. Belle de Rivera, Founder and Honorary President of the Federation, made a request. She asked that in honor of her 84 years the incident be considered as closed and that nothing more be said on the subject. She acted just in time; no one made any personal remarks about Katie Smith...
Easy to believe and equally timely were despatches stating that each of the Nicaraguan presidential candidates issued last week, a declaration that he not only favors the piesent U. S. electoral supervision, but will, if elected, request U. S. supervision of the Nicaraguan presidential election of 1932. When the substance of these declarations was made known to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, he commented: "Most gratifying...