Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where does Old England stand as the New Year opens? The question is best answered in terms of her great men. As the year closed a volume,* well spiced yet sound and seasoned, was set on the world's book shelf. Therein that shrewd and keenly discerning British editor emeritus, Alfred G. Gardiner, has sketched the great men of his country, and several others, in a style brilliantly quotable. Quotations...
...after the loss of Waterloo. It is a matter between these rulers and their conscience whether or not it had been better for Napoleon to have blown his brains out after his defeat by Wellington or for Davis to have done the same when Richmond fell. Brave men rarely question another's courage, particularly at such a moment as the downcrash of an empire. I have known many men of moral and physical courage-but none more personally chivalrous and brave than the now exiled Kaiser." Not content with this panegyric of Wilhelm II, Mr. Bigelow paused to eulogize...
...fairly consistent success as far west as Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.), which beat them on Prohibition. They achieved their most brilliant victory last week at Franklin & Marshall College, in Pennsylvania-Dutch Lancaster, Pa., not two hours distant from Valley Forge and the cradle of U. S. liberty. The question: "Resolved: Monarchy is the best policy." Then they went to Baltimore for the first international-interracial college debate on record. In Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, before an audience 95% Negro, they again lost the Prohibition issue, to the serious statistics and idealism of dark-skinned silver-tongues from Lincoln...
...question of whether the Mexican Roman Catholic Episcopate had meddled in Mexican politics was shrewdly answered...
...largest question in Detroit and Wall Street was, what would Henry Ford do about it? General Motors announced that it would follow its recent policy of advertising to create a market and thus be enabled to keep its prices down. Would Henry Ford, whose keyhole was most tightly plugged, follow a like policy? Would he, as dismissed workmen hinted, put on the market one of several six-cylinder models he had ready for production at any minute? He had denied this plan, repeatedly. He drily denied it again last week, saying: "Several good automobile companies are now producing sixes...