Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position in front of University Hall creates an unusually pleasing and dignified effect Those skeptics who seek for some dark design on the part of the authorities in ending the Founder's "splendid isolation" in the Delta ought to find in the artistic success of the adventure a satisfactory answer. Although it must be apparent that while in the old, ruthless days, the contiguity of the statue to Memorial inspired coats of red paint and so on, it's present surroundings would not permit even the most barbaric to ruin the beautiful harmony...
...President Coolidge made a donation in answer to the Salvation Army's appeal for $37,000 for charitable work...
...minor scene occurred when Mr. Masterman, Liberal, made a request for information to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. The Chancellor thought the request offensive and said: "My right honorable friend can understand from the answer exactly what his intelligence enables him to apprehend." Thereupon loud cries of "Withdraw!" rent the air. The speaker said he did not think the question was offensive and the Opposition (Conservative) and Liberal cries turned to cheers...
...nieces and nephews) starting off for California,, with all possible gaiety. In the Autumn they plan to return to Manhattan and, hereafter, to work there for at least half the year. "If it's possible to work in New York," Mr. Norris added. Then, "Is it?" The answer is, I think: It's possible to write anywhere if you are surrounded by intelligent and sympathetic friends who are willing to furnish stimulation without insisting on distraction. Such friends, it is easy to see, the Norrises are to each other...
...George F. Baker?" is a question to which no good answer has ever been given. True, he is in the banking business at No. 2 Wall Street. True, he is twice as rich as the original J. P. Morgan, having a fortune estimated at 200 millions. True, at the age of 84 when he has retired from many directorates, he dominates half a dozen railroads, several banks, scores of industrial concerns. "At a word from him, the 20th Century would halt on its tracks...