Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked whether he thought that college men of today take less Interest in religion than they did 20 years ago, Dr. Fosdick answered that even if men went to chapel less often than they did in his day, religious problems were being discussed on the campus with much more interest at present. "I have inquired frequently what subjects are usually discussed in what we used to call bull sessions among students. The answer was generally 'sex and religion.' I am convinced that a man's real conception of and attitude towards his position in the universe, his religion, and other...
Yesterday. The Anti-Saloon League, in convention, voted to forego the undercover method of ensuring enforcement by exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil...
...house that evening so the guarian of Ticket Windowe said the reporter enjoyed himself until the intermission, when he decided it was time to send in his card to the bright star of the protestless of "stage door Johnnies" was the medium and promised to have an answer after the show. He did have one Fair "Helen of Troy, New York" had written daintily...
...state of England's great men in present times of peace? This question, mildly savoring of treason vitiated the British press all week, while reporters tried vainly to get other great men to affirm or deny that they can touch their toes. Cagy politicians refused to answer, but Mr. George Bernard Shaw bid for a mile of notoriety by replying to a telephone question thus: Can I touch my toes? Is that what you've rung up to ask me? Well, God forgive...
True or not, this publicity is hurtful to the other great powers, and there is great hurrying and scurrying in the French and British and Italian offices to answer is. For whatever recriminations pass between diplomats, the feeling of the people of the world seems to be for peace, with disarmament as the first step toward world security. Mean-while the British and Italian foreign offices tell their people through the press that the Russians always spoil every conference anyway, just as soon as it gets nicely going, and so the people must not expect too much of the conference...