Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Ashurst: "I think Senator Jones' question is most appropriate, and if I had been as quick a thinker as he is I would have asked it myself. Now, you came here-Senator Wheeler went to your house with two other gentlemen and brought you here?" Miss Stinson: "Yes, sir." Senator
Marriage denied. Ann Pennington, famed Follies dancer, and Brooke Johns, onetime student at Georgetown University, and famed Follies banjo player (TIME, March 31). Said she: "I am living in strict singleness, and Brooke tells me that he is, too." Said he: "Yes, we are not married." Both received extensive publicity...
...begun. And for this purpose it will be necessary to convince the world--or a dominating majority, of the futility, the horror of modern war. In other words, the solution of the problem lies in so forming public opinion that the answer to the first question will universally be "Yes". Until the world considers war the worst evil, there will be alternatives, worse than war, which will make war seem desirable by contrast...
Those who are known as "pacifists" commonly assume that the answer two first question his "Yes". As a matter of last, while most of America, and probably, of England, take this for granted, Europe obviously does not. France for example, would prefer eternal war and consequent annihilation to German encroachment. Belgium chose certain rain rather than what the world would have considered disgrace. When one assumes that the world desires peace above everything else, one does so for the academic purpose of limiting the argument...
Senator Wheeler: "Yes and I have tried as many cases as you have. . . . There isn't going to be any bulldozing of this inquiry. . . . We won't take your petty small abuse. You will have every courtesy...