Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writers has enabled them to take any outstanding event and bring thou- sands upon thousands of words upon it before the eyes of virtually every literate U. S. inhabitant. Who has not seen the Lindbergh photographs? Who, asked to whom the nicknames "Slim," "Lucky," apply, would hesitate for an answer? To be sure, the stories written about Colonel Lindbergh were often phrased in bombastic and maudlin journalese. Mrs. Lindbergh, dignified, poised, was the theme of countless prose variations of Mother Machree. Had Colonel Lindbergh possessed a wife or sweetheart, one hesitates to think what would have been written about...
...told Dr. Stresemann with great vehemence that France will not hasten her evacuation of the Rhineland until Germany carries out more fully her disarmament obligations (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925). Dr Stresemann offered to produce photographs showing the destruction of German fortifications along the Polish frontier; but returned an evasive answer when M. Briand insisted that a French military commission be allowed to investigate the destroyed defenses in question...
...disagree with those who think you show courage in publishing the letters of criticism and cancellation which come to you. As a matter of fact, most of them are so obviously unintelligent that they answer themselves rather cruelly. Published without comment, they constitute a sort of subtle flattery of your more discriminating readers and become highly suggestive of the desirability, from and advertising standpoint, of your remaining circulation...
Steaming gruel, juicy lamb chops, southern -cooked biscuits, crisp bacon all went into Room 19 and came back almost untouched. Doctors, nurses, urged the patient to eat, but Earl Carroll would only turn his head away, answer: "I can't, I can't." In some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...view of these circumstances, had not Vice President Dawes selected rather an inopportune time to debate career men v. special emissaries? This question, impertinent, found no official answer...