Word: answering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reporter of the New York Evening Post (paper owned by Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis) innocent of all knowledge of Zionism, succeeded only in asking Rabbi Kook what he thought of America. Answer: "Very nice country. Nice reception. Nice mayor. Cannot tell yet about people...
...there in person to select the winner of a beauty contest; or rather, to choose a girl to be "America's Diana." Why is Mr. Mcfadden chosen for this purpose rather than any other famed publisher-William R. Hearst, or Cyrus Curtis, for example? The answer is that Mr. McFadden is a specialist in physical culture. He owns Physical Culture and Beautiful Womanhood, not to mention True Story, Metropolitan, Brain Power, Movie Weekly. According to advertisement, his "God-driven pen" has made millions think. So he is going to the Michigan Industrial Exposition to help the workingman...
...merely to prosecute them skilfully after they have begun. And for this purpose it will be necessary to convince the world--or a dominating majority, of the futility, the horror of modern war. In other words, the solution of the problem lies in so forming public opinion that the answer to the first question will universally be "Yes". Until the world considers war the worst evil, there will be alternatives, worse than war, which will make war seem desirable by contrast...
Those who are known as "pacifists" commonly assume that the answer two first question his "Yes". As a matter of last, while most of America, and probably, of England, take this for granted, Europe obviously does not. France for example, would prefer eternal war and consequent annihilation to German encroachment. Belgium chose certain rain rather than what the world would have considered disgrace. When one assumes that the world desires peace above everything else, one does so for the academic purpose of limiting the argument...
...Straton of "arguing in circles", "evading the issue", and "failing to present one single item of proof." Such remarks are in sharp contrast to the discussions after the addresses of Dr. Grant and Dr. Fosdick. These men won the respect of their listeners by straighforwardness, and earnest attempt to answer honestly the questions asked...