Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator McKinley's "bone dry" harangues, had not availed against Colonel Smith's impassioned anti-World Court tirades. The question of whether Smith can win out over George ("Wetter-Than-Niagara") Brennan, who secured the Democratic nomination, promptly came to the fore...
...figures which he had previously presented. All went well with him until Senator Reed, mighty Missourian, began to quiz him in tones now jocular, now earnest. The Senator tried to get him to admit that some of the "light wine and beer bills" would, if passed, solve the enforcement question. The General refused to make any such admission. Then the Senator got to putting hypothetical questions, hedged about with hypothetical qualifications. Finally the Senator produced this Homeric question...
...Bruce: "I can conceive of nothing more deplorable, nothing more tragic, nothing more scandalous, but I take human nature as it is. In other words, I look at this question exactly as the Free Soiler looked at the institution of slavery...
...French debts in question were finally wiped out in 1795, though their settlement was arranged partly "in kind" instead of by money payments as was originally intended...
...testimony indicated that he now owns very little stock of the St. Paul, had resigned as a director after the leasing (at his recommendation) of the two short roads in question, had taken a directorship in the puny belt line chiefly to get free pass privileges on other roads??, believed the St. Paul profited from the leases, knew of no scandal...