Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a citizen, not unwilling to lend an ear to the plight of "prisons abroad," nevertheless wondered why the President had ever appointed one of their number especially to deal with such a subject. The answer is: In 1878, there were a dozen international conferences. One, at Berlin, had to do with peace (Disraeli v. Bis marck). Another, no longer mentioned in history books, had to do with prisons and resulted in a commission to which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, etc. each contributed a commissioner. Mr. Chisolm was the U. S.'s fourth contribution. To succeed him, the President must...
...answer is, not vice, but the word vice, and especially the meaning of the word vice in the historically great tradition of U. S. Puritanism. Actually the word is simply a general term signifying the opposite of virtue. If habitual kindness is a virtue, then habitual unkindness is a vice. For all specific forms of vice, there are specific words: thus, profligacy, drunkenness, sadism, cannibalism, gluttony, venery, adultery, laziness, mendacity, cupidity...
...presence with such proof of its truth as you may be able to advance. I further ask that you permit me to make full reply. In order that you may not be embarrassed, I will permit you, if you choose, to conduct the meeting by question and answer...
...every respect were the spoken words of a man from St. Louis, Mo. He sounded exactly like this: "Once there was a young rat who couldn't make up his mind. Whenever another rat asked him if he would like to go out with him, he would answer, 'I don't know...
Conspicuous among the U. S. inhabitants who appeared and spoke in their accustomed accents at the recording studio was the Vermonter with his kued for could, his enser for answer, his cahft for coughed. Also conspicuous was the Middle Ohioan with his doan for don't, his then for than...