Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was "mental reservation" with a vengeance; and persons ignorant of Irish politics may well have asked: "Why did men who have steadfastly and courageously refused to swear an oath for five years decide to swear it in such ignoble fashion now?" A sufficient answer is that early last week the Free State Government headed by President William Thomas Cosgrave jammed through Parliament the Public Safety Bill under which the seats of deputies who do not take the oath may be declared vacant and a by-election ordered to fill them?no candidate being allowed to run unless he pledges...
...diving for golf balls that inefficient golfers plop into water hazards at the Marine & Field Club, Brooklyn. He picks up dollars from unsuspecting golfers passing by, by suggesting that he can drive a certain narrow green nearly 300 yards away. Unsuspecting golfers doubt it. "Betcha," says Gambler Potter. "Betcha," answer unsuspecting, greedy golfers. Potter drives the green...
...answer these questions fairly and convincingly became last week a game of wits, which aggressive and argumentative persons lost no time in playing with one another...
Came an honest and original answer: "Fine! Fine...
...total $20,000. Franz Schubert sold many of his most beautiful creations for 20c. He submitted the "Erl-King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote to one Franz Schubert of Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment I inform you that this cantata was never composed by me. I will use every endeavor to discover who has so discourteously sent you this bit of patchwork and expose the scoundrel who so misused my name." The "patchwork" was written in 1816, accepted for publication...