Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seceding organization, should be placed in the same group with the man who murdered his friend and a man who would trade his country for money. In your issue of May 30, you quote Clarence Darrow, a Chicago lawyer, as saying before a Negro organization in attempting to answer the question as to why there are so many different colors among Negroes-"It must be that so many white women have raped colored...
...Answer calls made to a subscriber with a given message, such as that he is sick, busy, absent, but may be reached, later, at such-and-such an hour...
...senses that, despite appearances, this wretch is a Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord's Prayer. In answer, God sends the earthquake of 1906 to demolish the villain...
...upon us. My experience with life has taught me that injustice, sooner or later, works in compensation against its perpetrator and when this happens may Heaven spare those you love." It was as if the widow of Charles Dickens were pleading for his son. What could M. Poincaré answer? Next day Mme. Alphonse Daudet opened a long, crisp envelope, read the Premier's reply: "Your letter, Madame, has profoundly moved me, but awakens in me no remorse. . . . Need I remind you that at the request of your son's friends I intervened at the time of Phillipe...
Robert Spear Hudson, M. P. (Conservative back-bencher): "I am sure the Government will wish to answer with a definite 'yes' or 'no' whether any of the unfortunate persons executed in Russia as 'spies' were in our employ...