Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...door of the Washington jail swung open hungrily last week to admit Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. The U. S. courts had found him guilty of contempt of the Senate for refusing to answer questions in its 1924 Teapot Dome investigation. Now he was paying for his stubbornness by a 90-day sojourn in a "common jail" with pick pockets, wife-beaters, smalltime crooks...
...state supported institution. With these the taxpayers are to be considered, a group far in excess of any alumni body, yet few college officials and teachers appreciate the fact. The attitude of some of these is that dirty linen should not be washed in public. To this a sufficient answer is that it is better to be washed in public than not at all. They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot be suppressed, that it is impossible to silence...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, pausing last week at Malaga, Spain, on his round-the-world yachting trip, gave a too large check to a Malaga merchant. Honest, the tradesman offered change. The Vanderbilt answer, as reported by the New York Times: "Keep the change, and the microbes with...
...still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but they did not bother to sit up straight. Still later, U. S. Subchaser No. 440, which had carried the Navy shells and oars from Annapolis to the Harlem River, took them back to Annapolis. Glendon Jr. did not answer his father's telegram. He merely remarked to questioners, "Oh, that's an old New England saying...
...defense placed Mrs. Dennett on the stand. She was allowed to answer three or four minor questions, concerning the fact that she had written the pamphlet 15 years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...