Word: questions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple man. tall, with grey hair, a mouth that smiles easily, steady patient eyes, a sincere handclasp for all comers. Secretary Hyde is without pretense. When he is asked a question about farming which he cannot answer he says: "I don't know. That's not reticence. It's ignorance." Once a Missouri legislator was haranguing him about cattle and beef. The talk wandered endlessly afield until Governor Hyde cut in with: "I'd like more meat and less wind. if it's all the same...
Thus racing away, his lips uncomfortably sealed, Senator James Eli Watson, Republican Leader, was overtaken in the corridor by a newsgatherer who panted his question: "Say. Senator?is everything? in the bill?going up?" Leader Watson, unable to resist temptation longer, shot back as he hurried on: "No, not everything. Some things are coming down? but not many...
...been evident that "Winnie" Churchill hopes to crowd out placid Stanley Baldwin -as leader of the British Conservative party, is trying to do so by a display of his battling prowess in debate. Sweeping the momentarily silent Government Bench with an outraged glance, Mr. Churchill fairly growled his question a second time: "Has a resignation been extorted from Lord Lloyd...
...also probable that the average spectator at a ball game enjoys plenty of hitting and is bored by the old-fashioned "pitchers' battle." No one has ever yet booed a homerun and certainly the greatest crowd-getter in recent years has been Homerunner Ruth. The question raised against the "lively" ball seems only to be whether homeruns may not become too common. In a Brooklyn-Pittsburgh encounter lately, nine homeruns were hit in one afternoon...
...excellence. The story is told that once, at a practice game in spring training, a young catcher asked each batter what kind of ball he was weak on, so that the pitcher could throw such a ball and give the batter needed practice. When Player Hornsby was asked this question, he gave the young catcher an offended look, haughtily replied, "This is Rogers Hornsby batting...