Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the past seven years through which my Government has held office, I have been obliged to answer the Parliamentary question now before me thirty-five times. I shall now answer it once more...
...beside the Danube at Budapest. The Count, an inflexible and secretive dictator, had just been asked how he proposes eventually to fill the now vacant Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King Karl, reached his age of majority...
...Divine Right of Kings-and surprisingly many Hungarians still do-knows that it is now Count Bethlen's pious duty to hail Archduke Otto as the Apostolic King of Hungary. But last week the Count-Dictator merely said: "For the thirty-sixth time I answer this question by declaring that when a King again sits upon the Throne of Hungary it will be solely by the action and consent of Parliament...
...Lewis: "I want to reiterate that Mr. Dreiser's book as a whole and mine as a whole have numerous important differences. We do not arrive at the same conclusions regarding the Soviet experiment. . . . What strikes me as peculiar in the whole affair is that the passages in question deal with precisely those things which I should have thought a novelist would wish to describe in his own words...
Keen has been the rivalry between two most famed sporting shops. Over the question of whether Von Longerke & Detmold, Inc. (349 Madison Ave.) sold more alluring and successful trout flies than Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (360 Madison Ave.). Many a family has been divided against itself. Last week such families were again united, as were the two shops, in a sporting merger...