Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the innumerable criticisms of the Junior Prom which have appeared in your mail columns of the past few weeks, the proposed referendum brings a loudly discussed question to a head. As a member of the class eligible to vote, I appreciate the opportunity of expressing my firm conviction that the Dance, as it is now planned, is not likely to succeed...
...played with skill by Claude Rains and Earl Larimore. In his nightgown, his cracked and reedy voice gleeful with deception, Volpone remained to the end a riddle. After the Fox, in planned guise of death, has signed away his coffersful to his servant, Mosca throws into his teeth the question: "Who are you?", and there is no real answer. Volpone is no longer Volpone, for Volpone made a will and died. But he never was anyone; even to Johnson he never was more real than the idea of greed...
...Sixty-five hr.. 31 min.; by Johann Risticz & Wilheim Zimmerman, Germans, 1928. The Question Mark, in one sense, could not break this record. The Germans never re-fuelled...
Eight years ago Chairman Hemphill died. Davison, the stimulator, was already dead. Arose the question of successor. President Sabin recommended and the directors recalled Mr. Potter (still a Guaranty director) from Guggenheim Bros...
Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, received a telegram: "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark (see p. 24)." Retelegraphed Mr. Davison: "Good. Let's trim Elijah...