Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois (he may have weighed more, but, as he himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared a quorum present, although the Democrats refused to answer to the roll call. One day, when the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, William McKinley, was supposed to move adjournment at a certain hour, but had not appeared on the floor, Mr. Reed pounded with his gavel and announced: "The gentleman from Ohio moves that the House...
...McCormick home in Washington had been broken up-the Senator was staying at a hotel. He returned from an evening session of the Senate and retired at 11 p. m. Next morning, correspondent William Hard, a personal friend of the McCormicks, telephoned to Mr. McCormick. There was no answer to his call. He went to the hotel and, after investigation, the door of Mr. McCormick's room was taken down. The Senator lay in bed, his hand over his mouth as if to stop the flow of blood which covered the bedclothes. He had died about an hour before...
Scarcely satisfied, the curious turned to see what answer the fingers of Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee had written on the walls. They saw a picture which, so it seemed to them, could be nothing but a pathologist's graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of the wedding of debauched parallels (The Cloud- Feininger) ; a diagram of the unfortunate encounter of a cloud of locusts and a windmill (Abstraction-Jawlensky) ; the furious attempt of a carburetor to become a French horn (Mathematic Vision-Klee). Some of the curious, appalled, then took themselves off, hand to head...
...takes pleasure, not in the childishly-drawn, insipid features of the holy woman, but in the exquisite ellipse of the head, the halo. The egg of a hen is also an exquisite ellipse. Which is more beautiful- the Mother of God, or a smooth egg? "The Mother of God," answer Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee; for no egg, were it equivocal as Humpty-Dumpty, could interest the eye by such interrelated curves as can a woman's face. How much more do these curves interest when they exist for themselves alone ? ''Let the meticulous observe," they say, "that...
...gold top?" "They do funny things to you in New York," he goes on. "A man came at me sudden out of a doorway the other day, and he says : 'Have you any use for a lady's necklace ?" Now I didn't know the answer to that, so I looked at him puzzled for a while, then I thought of it. Td rather have pyjamas,' I told him, and he went away." The Irish literary school has its great men: soft-voiced, indefinite Yeats, grandiose and pompous Dunsany, brittle and quarrelsome Shaw, half...