Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brookhart: Oh yes, the Senator was there...
...motherhood an act of God? This question, involving all the profundities of metaphysics, faith and physiology might well give pause to anyone, however learned. The answer YES would surely affront countless atheists, agnostics. The answer NO would just as surely anger multitudes of the pious. Yet several men were actually confronted with this question last week and expected to make a public reply...
Brother Herbert Brookes is 62. He was recently appointed Australia's first Commissioner-General to the U. S. Up to now the office has been merely "Commissioner" and its incumbent a sort of glorified Australian commercial attache assisting the British Embassy in Washington. "Yes, I taught Norman to play tennis," twinkled the Commissioner-General. "But he has been responsible for himself for some time. I am really a businessman, you know." Thus modestly Big Brother Brookes alluded to the fact that he is profitably interested in Australian pulp and paper milling, makes a business of sheep raising in Queensland...
Actively opposed to the export law was only one newspaper, the two-year-old Portland Evening News, edited by Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening. It campaigned against "Insullism," propounded again and again the question: "Shall the voters of Maine become yes-men for Samuel Insull?" It estimated that the power interests had spent $300,000 for the export bill, that the opposition had spent less than...
...Heink has been exceedingly busy bidding farewell to her public-concert, operatic, radio. Last spring, sailing for Europe, she announced herself as definitely "through." Teaching was to be her sole occupation. Last week she returned from Europe, limping down the gangplank on a sprained ankle, grinning her great grin. Yes, she told reporters, she was going West. Sound cinemas provided another way for great singers to sing. Three companies had made her offers...