Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to me that a paper so intimate as yours, speaking to its guests in general society, should restrain itself from giving offense to any one present. It is no answer to say; "Let the injured person retire." You do not profess to be an organ of any particular faith or creed and in truth you do not wish any of your subscribers to retire. . . . HOMER MOONEY...
...this evil upon them- given his best interview of all time, not to one of their number, but to an angelic interloper from another estate? An interloper who had then sold his treasure to their newspapers, via the Associated Press! Through ever-ready Secretary Everett Sanders, President Coolidge made answer as best he could to the "boys" (as Washington correspondents have delighted in being called since the blustery days of Roosevelt). He used up only half a sheet of letter-paper and signed his name. The wording of this missive remained unpublished, as did the "boys' " letter...
...testimony similar to that of Mr. Williams. Senator Goff, Assistant to Attorney General Daugherty during the Harding administration, testified that Harry Daugherty not only had never been consulted on the claim, but had never offered any suggestions or even discussed the subject until 1922 when President Harding requested an "answer" to the current criticism of the transfer...
...popular government--popular with those in office, unpopular with the rest, the voice of the people must be heard at some favorable time. It usually resounds in November in stadium, forum, or in the still static affected vehicle of current propagandizing, the radio. What does it say? The answer is rather obvious, dividing into such natural divisions as did ancient Gaul: I like football; I like the Democratic Party; I like the Republican Party: And that is that...
...Some there are, have been, will be, who worry at the building project of the Lady of Learning. "Why," they ask, "did not John Harvard dig into his pockets and save the day." The answer is obvious, John Harvard dug, and well, he went back to his chair before University Hall and mused in economics. At least he doesn't have to look at the wealthy lady's portals, he wanted for his own. And he has the new bell to listen to Affairs might be much worse...