Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who challenged the jurisdiction of Senator Reed and his Campaign Expenditures Committee, and who may have to answer to the Senate on charges of contempt of court, are: Samuel Insull, public utility archangel, who admitted giving $183,000 to successful candidate Frank L. Smith and to other friends and factions; Edward H. Wright, Chicago Negro boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf...
...asked for an estimate of his contributions, gasped: "Why, it would take weeks to get those figures together. . . ." Religious foundations had waited expectantly for the will to be filed. If alive he gave such vast sums to God, what would he not give dead? The Will made answer: "Following the example of my dear father, and believing it wiser to give liberally during my life to religious and charitable objects, I make no bequest of that character...
...Norris' text was "How God gave answer to a conspiracy", in which he tear-wringingly described how three of God's faithful were victimized by Conspirator Nebuchadnezzar and cast into a fiery furnace, but how God delivered them from their persecuting flames. (Pastor Norris speaks often of a Catholic conspiracy against him). Ominously one Lloyd P. Bloodworth, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, rumbled fervent amens from the front...
...kept falling over his forehead; he brushed it back with a sweep of fingers, striping his skin with paint. He made up his own technique. If he had to work out problems by arithmetic when artists more carefully groomed used calculus-well and good; he would get his own answer. Not even the school of Fontainebleau could draw from him the tribute of imitation. "If he had been capable of instruction," said the New York Evening Post at the time of his death," he would have been the greatest landscape artist of any period or people." The pictures that...
...prying reached to Hillyer Hawthorne Straton's private creed and personal practices, a Negro among the inquisitors asked him what he thought of "sanctification," and it almost seemed as though the glib answers suddenly betrayed shallowness as the youth hesitated and then chose to answer a different question shot simultaneously by some one else. Ah no, thought the stern elders, you cannot be too sure of youth's probity nowadays. And this boy had been pressed resolutely to the Lord's work by his father. He might be, at heart, no voluntary gospel-man, though...