Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These questions are the main concern nowadays of dark, academically-bent Dan Golenpaul, originator of Information Please. An editorial board of Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too...
Then came a brand new question: Identify the contemporary ruler or political bigwig who is i) a shoemaker's son, 2) a baker's son, 3) a blacksmith's son, 4) a bastard's son. They got the first three in short order: Stalin, Daladier, Mussolini...
At 23, Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, now Convict No. 34,234 in Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, still has considerable time to serve. He got life for the murder, 45 to 90 years for the kidnapping. The judge said the sentences were to run concurrently. If he keeps out of...
A columnist on the Manchester Guardian asked old George Bernard Shaw if he had sent Hitler a congratulatory telegram on his escape from the Bürgerbraü bombing. Shaw said he had not, but that Chamberlain should have wired Hitler: "Greatly as the British nation regrets your escape, decency...
* "[The elder Pitt's] attacks of gout," said the Italian paper Telegrafo last week, "were the most splendid and memorable in British history. They are definitely linked with the conquest of Canada and India. In British statesmen [gout] acts as an imperialist stimulant. Beware if Mr.Chamberlain returns to the...