Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Answer: At present employed British workers pay one-third of the dole in compulsory insurance payments deducted from their pay envelopes by their employers. The employers are similarly compelled to supply a third out of their profits. The Government makes up the last third out of taxes. Thus the dole is no "charity," but a true "compulsory insurance...
...Could Walt Whitman have spent four years at Harvard and then have written 'Leaves of Grass'? Impossible." Mr. William W. Ellsworth, veteran publisher and until a few years ago president of the Century Company, advanced this question and the emphatic answer to it in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...Cornell authorities. According to the terms of the contract Harvard was scheduled to play Geneva under the rules of the visitors and no protest was made by the University officials, Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 wrote to Geneva merely to clear the question and yesterday received the answer in the form of a definite statement to the effect that neither of the two men will participate against the University eleven. Johnson has already left Geneva and has returned to Pittsburg...
...Representatives' Chamber in the Capitol often used to point out a striking, little cripple on crutches, his hair awry, his lips compressed. Obviously, he wanted to talk. Gentlemen would turn to their guide, say curiously, "Who is that man?" And their guide, if well informed, would perhaps answer thus: "Well, he has a name-William David Upshaw-but is commonly known as 'Earnest Willie.' He comes from the Bible-loving, liquor-hating region of Georgia, and like most cripples who do not become incurably bitter, he is an incurable romantic. When he was 18, he fell from...
Signor Lucetti, jailed, said to the police: "Don't ask me so many questions at once. I am tired. Wait a bit. Give me a glass of water and a cigaret and I will answer all your questions." One hundred percent white Nordics who had supposed that Latins are perpetually emotional were puzzled...