Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this Mrs. Heywood Broun 2nd, alias Ruth Hale, a member of the Lucy Stone League, made answer...
...Significance. It is in this quality of primitive reality that the book is original and profound. Questions are always being subtly provoked that are easy enough to answer at a dinner table within hearing of a hotel orchestra-not so easy when one can catch far off, as it were, the challenge of the ageless cataracts of life and death thundering forever in the dark places of the world. In one passage, Mr, Powys recounts talking with a Kikuyu who asked him solemnly if he were aware that elephants had once been men: "He looked so serious when he asked...
...Robert P. Scripps, New York City. Dear Mr. Scripps-Your letter of Aug. 1 received. You ask where I stand on the Ku Klux Klan. Similiar inquiries have come to me from others. I take the liberty of making my answer to you public. This will inform all those interested in knowing my attitude on this question. . . . I am unalterably opposed to the evident purpose of the secret organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, as disclosed by its public acts...
...will remain at my post, to which I am bound not by caprice or by desire for power, but by a religious sense of duty. I will continue to do my duty, and I am certain that I can count on you to answer my call if at any time I shall need the people who are ready to sacrifice their lives for their country...
...refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she has dropped a handbag containing dynamite in a crowded taxi-cab. "What's going to become of us?" conscientious, multimarried chorus girls are asking. And there simply isn't any answer...