Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was having breakfast in bed and newshawks were already clamoring at the White House offices when Valet McDuffie brought him Mr. Van Devanter's message. If he made a grimace, only Valet McDuffie knows. He called for a piece of paper and scribbled an answer. "May I as one who has had the privilege of knowing you for many years, extend to you every good wish. Before you leave Washington for the summer it would give me great personal pleasure if you would come in to see me"-polite, noncommittal, frigid. Unlike most similar letters...
...Elizabeth, wearing smoked glasses, stood with her elder daughter on the bridge of the Victoria & Albert, near but not beside King George who stood out alone, clearly visible to every ship in the line, saluting like an automaton for two full hours. Near Princess Elizabeth, doing his best to answer her questions, was King George's cousin and personal naval A.D.C., Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The Queen's dark glasses were unnecessary. It was not raining but visibility was so poor that only two or three ships of the line could be seen at one time...
...well in the rear, guarding nothing more strategic than a few abandoned ammunition dumps. How his militant literary career soared so far is the explicit theme of Before I Forget; why it never rose far is the implicit question which between-the-line readers may be able to answer for themselves...
...four major sports, Kirkland has won three championships, football, baseball, and rowing. Of the minors, they have two more champions, indoor baseball and tennis. Add to this a second in the track meet and the fact that only one of their teams finished below fourth and you have the answer to their victory in the Straus Cup Race...
After years of observation and checking up on shark stories. Colonel Wise testifies that there is no fixed answer to the old question whether sharks will attack men. They mostly will not if they are well fed, not excited, not convinced the man is helpless. They mostly will if given a blood scent or if startled by what they think is an attack on them. And different species, of course, have different appetites. Best rule, thinks Colonel Wise, is not to trust sharks...