Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form the measure had been shorn of provisions to create a French monopoly of oil vending in France. Deputy Pioqemal, pounding his desk, demanded to know why these provisions had been knocked out. Answering his own question he cried: "I assert that the Cabinet has received and heeded an injunction from America forbidding the monopoly which the people of France have been promised over their oil imports...
...Such a question, such a thought was no doubt remote from the blank and infant mind of Princess Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya of Japan last week. She died without having reached the age at which humans become articulate to others and probably before she became articulate to herself...
...Shakespeare, bard, also contributed to the Mirror on the opening day of Mr. Moore's ownership. Said he at the top of the editorial page: "O, how full of briers is this working-day world!" Readers of the Mirror were offered $5 apiece for published letters answering the question: "If YOU were publishing the MIRROR, what sort of newspaper would you produce to meet your tastes and interests...
...garden in question was located in the thick of African jungles, overlooking a beautiful lake, three weeks by motor from the nearest town, the capital of Kenya. Here dwelt for nearly four years Hunter-Photographer Martin Johnson & wife, a pet monkey, a Boer mechanic, a native maid for Mrs. Johnson, nearly 200 native servants and an incredible number of supplies necessary for the making of good pictures, moving and still. Here meandered, day and night, elephants, "the good natured (until roused) bourgeois of the forest," the always bad-humored rhinos, the stupid hippopotami, dainty Abyssinian bushbucks and their antelope...
This afternoon a large number of the football players or would-be players in the College gather on Soldiers Field to inaugurate the spring practice season. The question of the relative merits and defects of extending football practice to include a few weeks in the spring there-with inevitably comes to the fore...