Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first questions was whether the President thought that all arms of the Government should now be devoted to finding out who stole the "pumpkin papers" from the State Department. Why, certainly, the President replied, with an expression indicating that he thought the question was silly. Well, had he given any instructions to the Justice Department? The Justice Department, the President replied, had standing instructions to enforce the law. But it had no specific presidential instructions on the Hiss-Chambers case...
...Well," said the bewildered minister, "that's wonderful. Both of you have excellent records, but I still can't decide which of you is the better Communist." "Very well," said Boris, drawing his revolver and shooting Nikolai neatly through the head. "This should answer that question...
...another instance, the Council failed to question Bender's assertion that a food investigation would be a slap in the face of Dining Hall authorities. Is the central purpose of the Dining Hall department to keep its hierarchy happy--or to serve the best possible food to undergraduates? And no one brought up the matter of the member of the official Visiting Committee on Food who suggested that Vice-President Reynolds hire a competent outside authority to scrutinize Dining Hall operations. This gentleman recognized the fact that the Visiting Committee lacked both the time and the technical know...
Burma! She was talking now with an air of finality and I began to move towards the door. "Yes, I've a sister there whom I visited in 1936 for a year." I asked the obvious question. "I was most impressed with the way the natives held themselves." The way they what? "Held themselves. It's my theory that the English don't hold themselves up so well because of their climate, constantly walking into the wind and so forth, whereas the Burmese grow up towards the sun. You know, Memorial Church reminds me somehow of Burma." I suggested...
...again. I opened the door and asked rather foolishly if she had done much reading of American fiction? We were both sort of jumping up and down with impatience by now. The hotel maid came out in the hall to watch. "Oh my yes," replied Miss Cam to my question, "I much admire Dorothy Canfield and I read a novel about New Orleans--what was it? which I liked very much." She picked up the phone and smiled with anticipation. As I walked down the dark hallway, past the still inquisitive chambermaid, I could hear Helen Mand Cam in process...