Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With regard to the question of Russian debts, loans and credits, it is, generally speaking, a matter of time. The Russians repudiated their debts and it is obvious that no new credits will be forthcoming until the world is convinced that the Soviet Government won't repudiate them also . . . I can say that . . . the Soviet Government will find it hard to get any fair-sized loan today...
...important as this question may seem, there is another far more important-the Russian harvest. Now let us make a prophecy . . I foretold that Russian money would be stabilized sooner than in any of the other countries of Europe. Now I say that if Russia has good harvests coming two years in succession her wealth will be greater than the greatest credit she might obtain abroad...
People who believe in ghosts met last week in Paris-the International Spiritualist Congress. How to greet a ghost when you meet him, was one question that immediately arose. The French delegates said to say: "Welcome, friend." English folk present demurred, said to teach children so would be to frighten them of apparitions in advance...
Then there was the question as to whether or not spiritualism is a religion, a philosophy or a moral code. None could decide that, save for himself alone...
Friends of the gentleman in question who read that slur with mounting fury were not unaware of the explosive buried in the word "sheik". Despite the Tribune's artful coyness, everyone knows that the word, due to its association with certain popular romances, cannot be employed without an implication of libidinousness. Unidentified! The Tribune obviously wished to suggest that the gentleman had crawled up behind the golfers with the idea of rising to his feet just as the camera snapped. If a gentleman known in innumerable homes for his geniality, probity and tact, is not protected on the veranda...