Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dowagers and daughters found that the 17-year-old Crown Prince would answer any question addressed to him, and that was all. Not until he was several years older did he wake up and start courting in his own way Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid.* Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel...
...love you're after-? call Circle 7-5900." This pressagent come-on was aimed at the "mug trade," to eke out Actor Leslie Howard's acknowledged carriage-trade appeal. The Strand Theatre installed four extra telephone operators, armed them with a disarmingly commercial answer, waited for the fun to start. Of 11,000 calls handled up to opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from tired business men who generally had their secretaries put the calls through for them. It's Love I'm After, not a mugs' picture, needs no such furtive...
Formed four years ago, the A. F. C. has lobbied successfully in 18 States for laws against these alleged practices. In answer to A. F. C. demands, the U. S. Department of Justice made a nine-month investigation this year, began presenting evidence to a special Federal Grand Jury in Milwaukee last September. The jury is still in session, but A. F. C. members last week were unanimously confident of victory under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Said new A. F. C. President Owen Lewis Coon: "I can see the breaking of monopoly ahead in this business...
...Americans love brightly-colored automobiles, flowers, bright clothing, scandals, fast-moving cinema, more than they like books. But the sale of novels like Gone With the Wind, which has now sold one copy for every hundred U. S. citizens, suggests that Americans will buy books under certain conditions. Another answer is the difficulty most people have in finding a bookstore where they can get the books they want when they want them. Although there are 4,000 U. S. bookstores, only 500 carry full stocks and buy directly from publishers. If all regular bookbuyers were organized into a club...
Anybody who mounted this stand was addressing his remarks ultimately to one man, Bill Bingham. Bill Bingham had for all only one answer, No! In January, 1935, came the news of the appointment of Dick Harlow. The uninformed, not knowing much about Harlow at that time, raised their eyebrows. On January 7, the Crimson joined others in open doubting Bill Bingham's sincerity. The athletic director had only one answer, a thousand times...