Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest comfort. One may wonder at the prosecuting attorney who was so active in their prosecution making such a careless mistake; one may hazard a guess as to the action six years from now of the Parole Board that promised not to release them; and the only answer seems to be the one immortalized on such occasions by Barnum...
This weakness lies far more in attitude than in capability. Every college student is familiar with the question: "Well, what do you do in college besides manage the hockey team?" The usual answer is no less illuminating than the question itself. The young man, flattered by the tribute to his executive ability, elaborates on the difficulties of his managerial position and then turns to club activities, theatres, and "brawls". Any reference to the academic will either produce embarrassment or be dismissed with a scornful, "Oh, you don't have to do any work to get through that place...
TIME must decline hereafter to answer questions, such as this, which do not pertain to the news. When swans or cygnets become cygnificant (such as would be the death of the red-billed black swan in the garden of the Pena Palace at Cintra, Portugal) TIME will tell, will answer questions on the subject...
...political soul for hours and hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice with a ponderous period. And tiresome though it is to turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken in four places...
...Post Office Department (Harry S. New of Indiana, Postmaster General) made a gesture in answer to the charge that, by laxity, it was aiding the Whispering Campaign. At Baltimore, Postmaster Benjamin F. Woelper seized 100 anti-Smith postcards which Postmaster General New later pronounced the work of "a depraved and degenerate mind...