Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made. Whether or not his experiences as Mayor have given him local reputation as a politician or whether or not his travels and contacts with persons in high places are thought to be proof of his political acumen are matters that have not been discussed. He himself will probably answer the questions himself, and one is not sorry that the should have the opportunity...
...more final for the moment. The Coolidge intention was clear enough. In the four months since the President first shut his door it had been pried wide again. Now he had shut it again. He chose not to lock it. He chose not to anticipate contingencies or to answer his own question: "Who could beat Al Smith if I didn...
...answer came a story, of the final dialog, last week, between Mr. Doty (known in the Legion as Gilbert Clare) and his commander, Colonel Rollet, at Sidi-bel-Abbes. M. le Colonel, choleric, began by reminding Mr. Doty that he ought to have been shot for desertion, then went on to praise him for certain acts of gallantry. Finally Colonel Rollet cried: "Clare, you are returning to America; you know there has been a film made there, Beau Geste, reviling the Foreign Legion...
England, long pictured as the naval ogre of the world, a monster uncontent with parity in armament with the United States, may be given her answer. For, speaking in the House of Commons two weeks ago William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that two of the big British cruisers that had been building under the terms of the disarmament treaty had been abandoned. At the same time he declared that Britain intended to restrict it cruiser tonnage next year to a mar', below that of the treaty agreement...
...answer to the question whether he had met with unsportsmanlike treatment in France, as has been hinted at by many writers, he answered. "No crowd in Europe ever behaved as badly as the American crowd to Cochet in the Davis Cup match, and you can tell them I said...