Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, an excited reporter called Senator Reed on the telephone. The answer came: "I am not responsible. ... I do not know the situation." Perhaps, as Mr. Reed clicked down the receiver, his grey-blue eyes lighted up with dreams of 1928 . . . from stump to stump across the land...
...Connor in-tended his edict as a rebuke, perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations to the accelerator. Had they been gallopading? Driving with one hand ? Gas-hawking, road-hogging? Amazed that good Catholics could ask such well-nigh blasphemous questions, Bishop O'Connor made answer. For no such ribald reason had he forbidden motor vehicles. He simply felt, he explained, that priests in the city did not need them...
...What ponderous luxury, weighing 46 pounds, having a diameter of 30 inches, a depth of 4 inches was brought 865 miles to be given to the President and Mrs. Coolidge? Answer: a cherry pie (containing 5,000 selected cherries) carried to White Pine Camp by Wallace H. Keep, college mate of Mr. Coolidge at Amherst, an honest publicity errand for the Grand Traverse Cherry Growers of Michigan. ¶Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg flitted in and out at White Pine Camp during most of the week. He conferred with the President on Mexico and the World Court, left...
...field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly: "I do not feel called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or any other individual." Meanwhile, Mr. Rosenwald arrived at White Pine Camp, became slightly ill, postponed his session with the President for a day. Finally they conversed. The press waited greedily for a Presidential statement. Would Mr. Coolidge urge Colonel Smith to withdraw, and do nothing about Mr. Vare...
...suddenly clapped a hand to his side, fainted. Taken to the Polyclinic Hospital, he was operated on for appendicitis, gastric ulcers. Over the wires of the world buzzed the news. At the hospital door bushels of flowers arrived. Two extra operators were detailed to the telephone switchboard to answer calls concerning Mr. Valentino. (When a rumor that he was dead circulated, the calls came at the rate of 2,000 an hour.) A maid delivered an Irish linen bed spread and pillow case marked "Rudy" with a card from Jean Acker. (She was his first wife.) From Paris came...