Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Supercilious, smart-Alex fiction writers have taken occasion from time to time to throw jibes at the department store of the U. S. They have tried to make dry-goods men, furniture men, carpet men, glass, china and home-fixture men look funny. But last week they had their answer. "Where would the American home be without the dry-goods industry?" was asked, and well and fitly answered at the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan...
...class of 1926 will answer the first call for contributions to the Fund...
Recently some reporters snapped at this unhidden contempt and made a "newspaper story" of it. And as a result busy, aged Luther Burbank was last week obliged to hire seven additional secretaries to answer with natural courtesy the thousands upon thousands of letters relating to his religious views. A few days later, in a good, substantial California rainstorm, in the face of his wife's restraining pleadings, he motored from his Santa Rosa home, hitting water two feet deep, to San Francisco in order to read an exposition of his views to the congregation of the First Congregational Church...
...last week, poring over the American Mercury for February, a Crimson editor came upon "Answer No. 62" in Editor H. L. Mencken's "Notes and Queries" department. The paragraph read...
...Answer No. 62.(February, 1926). "I would advise 'Manufacturer' to send his idiot son to Harvard. I am a recent Harvard graduate myself, and I wish to assure him that there is no university in the country where it is easier to get by with a minimum of work. It is an actual fact that throughout my entire four years I read no more, in the aggregate, than fifty small pages of large type, and that I skipped 80% of the lectures I was supposed to attend. I not only did not fail to get through; I graduated cum laude...