Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judith I lost entirely, probably because I never made much of a study of that portion of the Book. The other was on why do the people object to the carillon* and I still think I was some way right on it. My answer was, "because they are not spiritual enough to desire the kind of music we usually get from that class of instrument." And don't you think if they were in harmony with those things they would be glad to have them ? . . . I would like to have more of things of the Kingdom and Jesus from...
...letter does not blush."-ED. *An error, the name is "Phipps."-ED. "The question was: "How did Judith, the Biblical character, murder General Holofernes ?" And the answer: "Judith murdered General Holofernes by cutting off his head."-ED. *The question was: "Why do nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers and cabaret girls object strenuously to the Rockefeller carillon in New York and to the proposed Crane carillon in Chicago ?" And the correct answer: "Nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers, cabaret girls, etc., object to carillons because the carillons disturb their hard-earned Sunday morning slumbers...
...year ago most U. S. citizens thought the World Court issue was settled in the affirmative. The Senate by a vote of 76-17 had decided that the U. S. should enter the World Court with five reservations. Notes were sent to the Adherent Powers; scarcely an answer came back; Europe was not willing to accept glibly the U. S. scheme of entrance. Early last autumn the Adherent Powers met at Geneva, attached counter-reservations to the U. S. reservations. Several Senators who had voted for the World Court did an about-face. President Coolidge in his Kansas City speech...
...make a very strong appeal to the reader. Here are found also the three books which President Eliot himself thought might have a more permanent value than other writings--"The Happy Life"; "John Gilley"; the "Life of Charles Eliot". "These papers on the conduct of life are the answer to those who think of Dr. Eliot as a man concerned only with intellectual and material values. They display from many angles his profound concern with human character and his conviction that it is in spiritual things that the permanent satisfactions of life are found...
...paper, evidence which is supported by the unanimous opinion of students who were present at the time of the so-called riot Friday night, two points became very clear. In the first place there was no riot until wagon lands of police charged the crowd with drawn nightsticks in answer to a summons for aid, not a riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it. In the second place, even had there been a riot the choice of methods made by the police was bad. There is a quite obvious distinction between a few hundred...