Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson's going halted, at least temporarily, the agitation of a prime popular question: Is the Methodist Board a "lobby"? Is Dr. Wilson an arch-lobbyist? The question had been most recently raised by Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts...
...moonshine to suggest that a question of social equality was involved in my wife's going to a White House tea. My wife was not invited because she was white or black, Republican or Democrat. . . . She was invited because she happened to be the wife of a Congressman. . . . These Southern Democrats, these haters, are trying to stir up prejudice and help themselves politically. . . . There can be no question of social equality between races. . . . It is a matter of individual taste...
...question of international...
...city much like Dublin. He deserts his trade to do a heroic thing: to go into the Hotel Daedalus, first to its Cafe (Act 2), then higher to its Hall of Palms (Act 3), then finally to its Roof Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette, he pulls out a pair of field-glasses and returns the stare. This somehow gets him acclaimed hero by the crowd...
Besides her complaint on Minorities, Germany was urgently pressing the question: "When will the Allied Powers get out of the Rhineland?" Brought up in Council session, Minister Briand met it by playing for time. France cannot answer, he said, until she knows 'the views of Ramsay MacDonald, newly-elected British Prime Minister. He suggested that it be settled along with other details of the Young Reparations Plan at an International Conference proposed for July or August...