Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustled up to Vice President Alben Barkley and asked coyly: "Veep, my editor would like to know what La Dame Hadley has that we don't have-except maybe you?" Barkley promptly seized good-looking, thirtyish Ruth Montgomery and bussed her smack on the lips. "There is your answer, kid!" cried the Veep. Chortling, he added: "I'll tell you something you've got that she hasn't got-a husband...
...Regular Formula. Medina warned defense witnesses that they might be jailed for contempt if they refused to answer proper questions, cut them off sharply when they plunged into shrill attacks on Wall Street, the Ku Klux Klan or the Atlantic pact. "This trial would go on for an indefinite period if I received all the evidence offered every time two Communists talked to each other," he said...
Carlos Prío had an answer. After he had held a two-hour conference with 15 Cuban bankers, his palace publicity office handed out a mimeographed statement signed by the bankers. "We want to contribute to the economic development of Cuba through mobilization of her own resources," it said. The bankers' proposal: a $35 million loan, at higher interest (4%) and with fewer incidental services than First Boston had promised...
Everyone knows who wins a race between a hare and a tortoise, but who wins a race between two tortoises? Answer: the tortoise with the smarter jockey...
...Cover) Hollywood, which has a special logic of its own, has a ready answer for one kind of criticism: If entertaining the public and breaking box-office records isn't art, what...