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Word: answering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often tolerated male visitors. To one woman who took off her hat he cried: "Put it on! Only liars take off their hats!" In the awkward pause which followed, the visitor twiddled her thumbs. "Madam," said Mr. Brown, "I do not know what your signal means, so I cannot answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...still thinks that "Hatrack" has a special appeal to man's lower passions. And I am sure that the listeners who laughed up their sleeve while he read his "Credo" of "New Paritanism" had a pity for the man and his ignorance, especially when he was staggering to answer, why, to his mind, the Macfadden publications were not as harmful as is the American Mercury. Why that man and those who are backing him are simply one hundred and fifty years behind their time. A. Phillipoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Liberalism | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

Last week George Grey Barnard, famed U. S. sculptor, reported that the perfect man from Maine had come to town. Sculptor Barnard besought him to sit for his new heroic "Democracy" to be erected on the Fort Washington peninsula, but received for answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Model | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Read TIME from cover to cover ?the pages following this quiz as -well as those preceding. Then return to p. 33. Quiz yourself. Normal persons should answer correctly at least 20 questions. 1) What advice of his personal physician is Calvin Coolidge believed to disregard? (See THE PRESIDENCY.) 2) Who sailed quietly indeed, nearly unnoticed, on the Majestic? (See THE CABNET.) 3) "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." Who said? (See THE CONGRESS.) 4) At what trade did Mussolini once labor? (See ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Apr. 12, 1926 | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...these objectors, Rear Admiral Fiske?who has also invented a torpedo-plane, a telescope, a rangefinder, an ammunition hoist, a range indicator, a gun director system, a system for detecting submarines and an electromagnetic system for exploding torpedoes under ships?made answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Again, Ding | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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