Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public opinion that the U. S. verges on war on the side of the democracies against the dictators does not mean that the U. S. wants to go to war. On the question of whether the U. S. should remain neutral in another European War, 69% of the Gallup questionees voted yes and 95% would not "go into another such war as 1917." The evidence therefore indicates that while practically nobody in the U. S. wants to fight, one man out of two thinks he will have to and one out of three has a good idea whom it will...
...into a bare-faced lie. In the theatre, the "importance" of a character depends solely on how much he matters to an audience. By the time John Mason, having reached his office, tiptoes in to ask his boss for two weeks off in which to take a honeymoon, the question of whether he will get it or not will matter, to the average cinemaddict, almost as much as though the honeymoon were...
...attempt to take an informal poll on the question of easy death, the Sunday Forum of the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal last month published a melancholy letter signed "Lonely Man." The letter was headed: Would You Kill Yourself If You Had An Incurable Illness...
...fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as "touch" in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: "Art is a question of personality. What kind of personality has an umbrella...
...Crimson men, Henry D. Oyen '41 and Harry M. Shooshan, Jr. '39, supported the negative side of the question, "Resolved: That the neutrality set should be repealed." Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 presided as chairman at the debate...