Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean Acheson conferred on Germany with both France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Some progress toward agreement was reported, especially in the talks with Schuman, who has consistently taken a more reasonable view than French officials in Germany. The main question under discussion with the French is their insistence on breaking Germany up into small semi-autonomous governmental units...
Whispered or asked in a clear unabashed voice, no question is heard more often in a modern art gallery. The answers-whether supplied by highbrow critics, crusty crusaders, or well-meaning friends of the artist-are rarely very conclusive. This week, one Manhattan gallery tried the sensible experiment of letting the artists speak for themselves. It put on a group show of 23 U.S. painters (including some of the best) and invited each of them to contribute 75 words of explanation for the exhibition catalogue...
...there was no question that the shakeout of inflated prices was spreading and that consumers had tightened up their spending. In addition to cuts in the price of whisky and Ford cars (see below), there were reductions in many basic products, such as lead, zinc, copper, tallow. In its new midseason catalogue, Sears, Roebuck listed many prices anywhere from 10% to 50% cheaper than in its January book...
They would often ask that question during the next half dozen years. Gentleman Jimmy was forever darting away from his post in the peak-of-prosperity days-to Florida or Europe or simply to the fights. New York didn't seem to mind. Jimmy was the cock o' the walk, a witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party...
Harvard University was the scene the other night of a debate on the question, "Resolved, that the American Revolution was a mistake." A couple of young men from Cambridge University, England, argued that it would have been better all around if America had remained under the British crown. A couple of Harvard students in reply insisted that July 4 was worth celebrating. This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call...