Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact some of them ask me. The most popular query however, is how I can enjoy smoking when I can't see the smoke. But to that question, I always ask in turn if that is the questioner's reason for smoking. At the invariable answer of 'yes' I always suggest that such a person might save money by sitting on the curb and watching a chimney...
...years ago the Atlantic Monthly asked the question, "How can a man get off a frictionless plane?" It was a Harvard professor who supplied the only satisfactory answer when he replied: "The only way to get off to the north is to spit to the south...
...been expressed by graduates and officers as well as by undergraduates. As a reason, it is stated that at the time of the war these memorial-church opposers were but ten or twelve years old, and therefore cannot judge the desirability of the memorial. Were it not a fair answer to show that after all the alumni, who were mature at the time of the war, and who would now contribute toward the memorial, are not intending to commemorate the heroism of the dead so much for those who personally knew them, as for the many generations through which...
...answer to a question why college men prove to be better workers than those who have been less fortunate in their education, Mr. Zukor said, "College seems to teach them how to work, how to be efficient, and how to persevere. It teaches them to think rapidly and correctly and to act accordingly. College trains men for the motion picture business mentally and physically. This business is hard on a man. Whether he realizes it or not, a motion picture writer or actor is working most of the time until his play is produced. Whether he is at work...
...answer to a question, Mr. Zukor explained "Men continue in this hard working, commercial-art industry, because at all times they are creating something. Creative thought means something different, all the time, and anything new holds men, in spite of its burdens...