Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engagement in Manhattan and departed for Boston, but not before New Yorkers had called her back for 27 curtain calls at her last performance. Morris Gest, conducting Mme. Duse's American tour, hade her a gift of flowers and a speech. Mme. Duse presented him with a polite answer and a kiss...
...real question has never been how the merchants would make out this Winter, but whether their activity this season would continue next Spring. That question is still not easy to answer. It would seem that the Spring trade should be respectably large, if not of record-breaking proportions. Yet already a tendencey to cut prices and reduce stocks is discernible in the large stores...
...answer to the problem is perhaps simpler than it would appear. Hitherto every effort has been made to arouse enthusiasm for minor sports carefully organized on the varsity team basis. These efforts have met with failure. Squash, on the other hand, per force largely an informal sport and for the great majority of participants not organized on any basis of a team and regular attendance, has become more and more popular. Apparently the Harvard undergraduate is interested in a minor sport provided it is not over-organized. It might prove wise and profitable, carrying out this idea in other minor...
...answer to the public is that journalism has never been more free from falsehood and inaccuracy than at present. His answer to those who lament "the great editors are gone " is that we are well rid of them-they bred partisanship, they even " precipitated the Civil...
...that the public has began to believe it. Is this mass-delusion, not unassisted by judicious publicity and generous purchases in the stock market? Or is it the glimmering of a clear dawn as yet perceptible only to those located on high places? We shall all doubtless know the answer to this perplexing question some six or eight months from now, when the correct answer will have no prac tical value except to the moralist and the historian. On the other hand, there are those who feel we may be able to answer the question much sooner than that...