Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such, thing as a typical farmer; the distances and facilities between farms and markets being so various; the judgment of individuals?and the farmer remains a landmark of Individual-ism?running the scale it does, the first question of the man-at-the-lunch-counter is impossible to answer irrefutably. Some farmers drive Packards. Others ride mules. Some have radios. Others wear patched pants...
...that fervor, born of music, mysticism and impressiveness, is essentially pagan and orgiastic. It is not, of course, the conscious eating of a pot of honey of the grave. But still, if the free intellectual inquiry of the past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking with Romanistic and esthetic mysticism should shed no very tasteful fruit. Since the student rarely feels the great sorrows and trials of the bitter depths vaguely referred to as life, the support of the church can seldom rise above the low level of sustaining organ recitals before examinations...
...answer to Slocum's question, "Have you ever seen a Phi Beta Kappa man with a wrist watch?". Martin, in his letter to the Bulletin, states, "Mr. Slocum's concern is not so much with the importance of maintaining or abandoning the juxtaposition of the chronometer and the bowels as with the lack of modesty in some possessors...
Investigations revealed that Miss Morgan is, by no means, penniless and that her brother is, by no means, an unwise investor. The answer is that Miss Morgan probably gave the money she received from Old Gold to charity. Citizens did indeed think of that, but were still mystified. If Miss Morgan had been hard-pressed for another $1,000 for her pet charity, would not Banker Morgan, impeccable, gladly have accommodated her? There was only one other explanation: Miss Morgan was upsetting Morgan tradition by positively getting to like publicity...
...challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings of a pirate...