Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine unmarried women and a grandmother assembled last week at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for a new kind of Institute. The children were put in a special school, the husbands loitered near, while President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College explained to the attentive women: "It is an endeavor to answer the criticism that women's higher education does not have anything to do with her principal occupation* the family." We are not training cooks; we are not training welfare workers. We are giving women a liberal outlook upon the problem of the modern home in society. . . . 'Euthenics...
Said Walter Hagen to London reporters: "When people ask me why it is Britishers get licked at golf, I've only got one answer. . . . They're too gosh-darned lazy...
...Wheeler," was the mild answer. "I would like to know because I have an appointment...
...following conversation was reported in Manhattan a fortnight ago when hundreds of thousands were watching the processions of cardinals there: "Are you going to the Eucharistic Congress?" Sincere answer; "No. I don't play...
Early Bostonian: [There is] "a story told by Carl Schurz, who, during the American Civil War, on asking a sentry guarding his tent why he had not presented arms to a General who had just left it, received the answer: 'Why, sir, that General was never introduced...