Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spark of stage wit, the faculty of knowing when and how to break away from the regular routine speech with an immediate answer for every question, is that which distinguishes a Houdini, a Thurston, from the magician Blackstone, the feature of this week's Keith-Albee bill. Mr. Blackstone exhibits a complete performance of the accepted sleight-of-hand tricks with the ease of Keller, but he lacks the vital touch of spontaneity...
Where was Commendatore Jorio? Fascist police could not answer. So high had he sat in the spider web that he knew its every mesh, and was able to skitter out of Italy, even after the alarm was sounded, unchallenged by frontier guards. A thoroughgoing rascal, he had, it appeared, even cheated the Most Holy...
...want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they can answer for themselves. A good many of them, those Wall Streeters, were very active in getting the flasks. I noticed that...
Subsequent sharp querying of Scot MacDonald-especially by Welshman Lloyd George-confirmed two important if negative facts. The Prime Minister's answers revealed for the first time that he did not discuss the Anglo-U. S. War debt situation with Mr. Hoover, and that he has not given the President any assurance that in wartime the British navy will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that...
Pounding for silence, and securing instantly a dead hush, the President said: "I hope there will soon be a favorable . answer to these questions." Then, amid I discontented grumbling, he proceeded with a stodgy though important speech, announcing that Soviet grain collectors in the provinces have succeeded in forcing the peasants to sell at the Government's price some eleven million tons of grain. This is 10% more than last year, will amply suffice to feed the Red Army and the proletarian population of Russia's cities throughout the winter. "Let us rejoice and sing!" cried the Peasant-President, motioning...