Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen Chamberlain if any understanding existed between the U. S. and British Naval authorities, and if the possibility of the U. S. using the Singapore naval base had ever been discussed. Mr. Chamberlain, replying to the first part of the question, said that he would find it easier to answer if he could be confident that he understood it. He confined himself to saying that there was not, and he hoped there never would be, any misunderstanding between the U. S. and British naval authorities. As regards Singapore, the answer was decidedly in the negative...
...shilling, one is permitted to view the wax effigies of Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Lincoln and many another celebrity. At the door, stand two policemen who are standing jokes. Bobby No. 1 is asked a civil question, but declines to answer. Sometimes the inquisitor gets angry before he discovers his mistake. The other bobby is less lifelike. A visitor goes up to him, winks to show that he is not taken in and, with much self-assurance, just to show how certain he is, prods him in the abdomen. "Move on there, move on, please," booms the bobby without a smile...
What does the Harvard man read? There are three men about the Square who can answer with authority; for it is the newsdealer's part to watch the diminishing of his stacks and thence to prophesy the next month's demand for magazines quiet or gaudy. So the men whose shops are in sight of the Rotunda speak both with authority and with figures...
...President pro tempore Moses and retired up Pennsylvania Ave. to his rooms in the Willard Hotel. It was presumed that he was reclining en dé shabillé. He had telephoned to the Capitol twice during the afternoon to find out whether his presence was required and the answer had been...
...White-haired ex-Premier Venizelos came out of his retirement to defend Greece over a dispute with Bulgaria about the Bulgarian minorities in Greece. The matter was ended after heated discussion by the Greeks agreeing to answer a series of questions designed to ascertain if she is living up to her obligations toward minorities...