Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Washington correspondents as possible at press conference. Last week, the biggest press conference since the President announced his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court was on hand when he started out by saying that he knew exactly what the newspapermen wanted to ask and was prepared to answer for quotation. Without more ado, the President read a prepared statement...
...situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took her to lunch to find out if she did. Deciding that her answer must be yes, Steve walked out. "If I stay," she told the doctor, "I'll lose my sense of humor, the whole thing will end in a mess." The doctor couldn't work without her and became so snappish Ina decided he loved Steve, started for Reno. When, having...
...know that Wall Street is bounded on the east by Long Island but forget that it is bounded on the west by the U. S.," the retiring SEChairman ended by asserting that market "cushion" is provided by odd-lot trading. To these waspish remarks President Gay made answer in words that settled nothing: "With all deference to Mr. Landis, for whom I have the highest respect, I see no reason to change my views...
First major expenditure would be $3,500,000 for buying large haciendas for resale to impoverished tenants. For those who were surprised that, in view of the Philippines' recent acute agrarian troubles, no more was earmarked for this purpose, President Quezon had a ready answer: if he promised to buy estates wherever agrarian trouble started, landowners who were eager to sell out would foment trouble to encourage sales...
...coral reef mile-and-a-half down the beach, moved it to its present position. A partially obliterated date and three letters at the tail end of a word were its only markings. When he was transferred to Honolulu he continued his quest, by chance finding the answer in the blurred, weather-stained pages of a magazine published almost three-quarters of a century...