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" Politely asking to borrow the manager's note for a moment, Robinson added six $ 10 bills from his own wallet and mixed them up, then extended the seven bills together, adding, " Here, let's see you pick out the colored one ".
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Kowalewicz is featured in the song " Smiling Politely " by Cancer Bats from their album Hail Destroyer.
asking and borrow
Falk would often ad lib " Columbo-isms " ( fumbling through his pockets for a piece of evidence and discovering a grocery list, asking to borrow a pencil, becoming distracted by something irrelevant in the room at a dramatic point in a conversation with a suspect, etc.
Beginning in 1994, Rerun is regularly shown on Charlie Brown's doorstep, asking to borrow Snoopy.
He has always remembered with nostalgia an early love, Veronica Cray, who suddenly appears in the house on Saturday night asking to borrow a box of matches.
Then Sauey and Archibald contacted zoos all over the world, asking to borrow cranes for the foundation ’ s breeding program.
When Peter Barlow wrote, in 1845, he remembered Davies, but not Horner, asking to borrow a book by Budan ( both Davies and Horner were living in Bath at the time ).
The dolphin regularly takes advantage of Sherman's stupidity, such as asking to borrow his credit card or asking him for two ten-dollar bills as change for a five-dollar bill.
asking and manager's
The director helped tailor-make a check list of the district manager's errors by asking various observers to write out sentences commenting on the mistakes they felt he made.
asking and note
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
He left a note propped on the desk asking her to call him sometime today, and drove home.
However, Becky, in a moment of conscience, shows Amelia the note that George ( Amelia's dead husband ) had given her, asking her to run away with him.
Some days later Vosill receives a note from Adlain, asking her to meet him and two other Dukes elsewhere in the castle.
It mentions Mr. Mole calling Buckingham Palace and asking for the Duchess, and also him sending her a note to meet him outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to run away with him as she is his soul mate.
He sent a note to the imperial freedman Charilas, asking if he could call on the emperors.
On March 25, 1938 Majorana wrote a note to Antonio Carrelli, Director of the Naples Physics Institute, asking to be remembered to his colleagues and saying that he had made an unavoidable decision and apologising for the inconvenience that his disappearance would cause.
He receives a note from her asking for a meeting at her house, having arranged for Sophia, Mrs Honour and her own maid, Mrs Etoff, to see a play together.
Lloyd George had French and Wilson to lunch in August, then on 11 October 1917, following the precedent of Asquith ’ s War Council of August 1914, they were invited to the War Cabinet and invited to give their opinions ( a note from Hankey asking French to submit his paper via the CIGS was apparently ignored ).
On a side note, future show announcer Rich Fields attended a taping of The Price Is Right in 1978, asking Olson how he could get the announcing job.
On 31 March 1898, Eleanor sent the maid to the local chemist with a note to which she signed the initials of the man the chemist knew as " Dr Aveling ," asking for padiorium and a small quantity of prussic acid ( hydrogen cyanide ) for her dog.
* According to American activist folk musician Pete Seeger, Jeanette Turner did a loose English translation, " a singable translation " of the poem in with a different title, I Come And Stand At Every Door and sent a note to Seeger asking " Do you think you could make a tune for it?
Jean asks the maitre d ' to give Marie a note asking her to meet him one last time.
It is interesting to note that asking this question of the members of the Grey Council results in a bizarre effect where the words are amplified and echoed around the room.
The jury will be permitted only ( a ) to call for refreshments, ( b ) to pass a note to the judge, perhaps asking for further guidance, or ( c ) to announce that they have reached a verdict.
In October 1941 on receiving a note from the Irish government asking for its intentions with regard to Northern Ireland on the stationing of personnel associated with lend-lease, the U. S. State Department referred them to the British government as Northern Ireland was, they insisted, part of the UK.
In August 2012, Jamie Stewart admitted that he was the most depressed he'd ever been and posted a note on the band's website, asking fans to give him reasons to continue living.
However, in 2005 the Flemish newspaper De Tijd pointed out that the documents sent to the residents of the Walloon municipality of Enghien / Edingen were generally written only in French while including just a small note in Dutch asking the receiver to inform whether he / she wished to get a Dutch copy.
" Some years later Broadway director Blanche Yurka sent a note to Davis asking if she would like to play Hedvig and she sent word back that ever since she had seen Entwistle in The Wild Duck, she knew she would someday play Hedvig.
Fearing that a dead mother would doom her babies ' chances of rescue, she reluctantly and emotionally leaves her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note asking anyone who might find the babies to care for them and contact the father.
Parrado wrote a note telling about the plane crash and asking for help.
It was reprinted by Nathaniel Parker Willis, still anonymously, in the Home Journal with a note asking who the author was, on Poe's request, to stir up interest.
On his way out of the building, Seth leaves Chris a note asking to meet in private, at which point he informs Chris about the raid and convinces him to sign the sale ticket.
In the third act, set in Lord Goring's home, Goring receives a pink letter from Lady Chiltern asking for his help, a letter that might be read as a compromising love note.
asking and for
If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
Twenty minutes later she was at the desk of the Grafin's pension, her tears dried, signing a hotel form and asking for a bath.
Then Miriam varied the senseless psychological warfare by suddenly withdrawing a suit for separate maintenance that had been pending, and asking for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, with the understanding that Wright would not contest it.
A need so deeply planted, asking for direction, so to speak, is likely to be gratified by the vivid examples and heroic proportions of literature.
Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.
Woodruff said nothing, and Pike, frustrated, stormed throughout Little Rock in an unsuccessful search for `` Vale '', asking his friends to keep their ears open.
As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.
When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.
Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.
The Providence Sunday Journal article ( Jan. 29 ) asking whether American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities sounds as though The Providence Journal is desperate for news.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.
She concluded by asking for a brief interview -- `` to settle with you where '' -- and she threw in a tribute to his `` gentle manners '' and `` the wild originality of your countenance ''.
They're asking for union trouble.
The innocence that they tried to conceal at the beginning is clearly destroyed forever when one of them, asking for a piece of lemon-meringue pie, gets a plate of English muffins instead.
He's really asking for it ''.
In doing so Marshall and Byrnes were `` asking for the ratification of a grim lesson in the facts of international life ''.
Bari was asking for it, he thought.
On the other hand, a husband who always has been vigorous and assertive may suddenly become passive -- asking, psychologists say, for reassurance that his wife still finds him desirable.
Here the absent sitter makes a `` date '' with a communicator ( someone close to him who is deceased ), asking him to `` come in '' at a certain hour, when a channel will be open for him.
And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.
But come the next session of Congress, State can expect only that its summer guest will bite its hand when it goes to the Capitol asking money for diplomatic entertaining expenses abroad or for living expenses for its diplomats.
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