Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There ensued an interval in which everyone asked: "What will Britannia say to this?" There came the answer of British newspaperdom: "It is almost incredible that a British officer should have done such a thing . . . that a man in public life should choose the hour when peace and amity were dawning at Locarno, to revive one of the most unsavory stories...
Once a year, just before the season begins, Manager Gatti issues his summons so that he can answer at a single sitting the plaguing interrogations of the press. New operas are to be given, new singers heard; Manager Gatti-Casazza had promised to give details. Yet the reporters, when they had got inside, found that there was nothing for them to do but stand fidgeting on a green carpet; Mr. Gatti-Casazza was busy. When at length an interpreter (for Mr. Gatti-Casazza understands English but slowly and speaks it more slowly still) led them down a corridor...
...answer I leave to you. Though retiring and shy, I believe it to be the right of CRIMSON readers to find my words of wisdom (the phrase is from one of my admirers) in the most convenient possible place...
Allow me to say a few words in answer to an article which appeared in the editorial column of Wednesday's CRIMSON under the title of "Duces Wild". This article was probably intended to throw ridicule at Mussolini, but unfortunately the author has descended to such a depth of calumnious utterances that instead of provoking mirth, his words bring only disgust to the reader. The disparagement of great men is a pastime indulged in by the intellectuals of every country, when it is done with due regard to decency of speech, but when such a diversion goes beyond all limits...
...then has America no active participation in that court? The reaction to war sentiment is over. It was over when President Harding, a member of the reactionary party, recommended with minor reservations that the Senate assume some active interest in the court. The answer to the question is simple. Certain American politicians are preventing America's entrance into the world court. It has not their vote for it has no evidence of their particular genius; it does not contain their signatures. To them the fact that such intelligent minds of their country as Mr. Hughes, Judge Choate, and President Lowell...