Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sounded like a catch question, but it was doubtless put most earnestly. Prohibiters everywhere viewed the election as a final sealing if not a sanctification of the country's war-bride, Volsteadism...
Alfred E. Smith carried Massachusetts because, among other reasons, the state is overwhelmingly opposed to prohibition. In response to a question on the ballots, 33 out of 40 senatorial districts instructed their senators to vote for a resolution requesting Congress to take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. A wet vote of 619,000 glaringly opposed a dry vote of 347,910. Only three districts, rural and suburban, showed dry majorities. In the other four districts the question did not appear on the ballot...
...Harvard the question of further cutting freedom is more one of form than of substance. Although Dean's List men and Seniors in good standing alone have official sanction for unlimited cutting, men in good standing of whatever class are seldom called to account for their absences from the class room. The University administration admits in practice if not in theory that students should be allowed to decide for themselves through what channels they are to acquire learning...
From the scholastic point of view Harvard could lose nothing by announcing to her students that class attendance is a question for individual judgement...
...major fault of "The Wedding March" is that it drags. There is no question that some of the photography question that some of the photography is excellent, that scenes are skillfully put together, and that Fay Wray does a first class bit of acting. But somehow the thing seems to drag out interminably. As a picture by von Stroheim. "The Wedding March" is probably worth seeing, and as movies go it certainly is more than average, but none the less in view of what has been said in anticipation it is a great disappointment...