Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eternal question with me," said Walter Hampden, who appeared last week in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Boston Opera House, "is what to do next. After that I ask myself 'How much will it cost?' and then, 'Will they come...
...response to a question regarding the other plays he has appeared in. Mr. Hampden said, "I gave almost 500 performances of 'Hamlet,' 600 of the 'Servant in the House,' and 360 of 'Caponsacchi,' 272 of which were consecutive. In the last analysis I prefer playing Shakespeare to any other writer, other dramatists have not the same terrific force that he has Acting Shakespeare is like bathing in the ocean...
...Army's refueling champion plane, the Question Mark, flew for 150 hrs. before its engines, plain worn out, sent it down...
What the Jury Was Told. It was related, by consent of both parties, that Mrs. Dennett had mailed the pamphlet. The question was on its obscenity. The prosecutor "explained" the case 'to the jury. He read excerpts from Havelock Ellis and Henry Louis Mencken recommending the pamphlet, but later Judge Barrows instructed the jury: "I warn you against giving these the credence of testimony." Then Prosecutor Wilkinson, a fine, bluff man, read the pamphlet aloud while the courtroom, crowded with spectators, listened breathlessly...
Denials make poor reading and worse information; a sweeping denial, it is true, may close discussion on a subject, but the mere bolting of a single door piques the curiosity in regard to all the others. In the present case, the real question hinges on what is to be done with the present H. A. A. surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going...