Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Governor Kohler took the witness stand early in the trial to answer prosecution questions. A white carnation bobbed in his buttonhole. A pearl pin was stuck in his black tie. Grave, composed, good-natured, he defended himself, his family, his company in a manner befitting one in his position. The crowd in the courtroom listened quietly, attentively...
Nosing over to England from the Fatherland, the long silver cigar radioed down a question: "Where is the King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops...
When cornered with the question, "But whom do you think Juliana will choose as her Prince Consort?" discreet Dutch gentlemen usually answer, "Perhaps her second cousin, Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred of Erbach Schoenberg. He is five years older than she and that is good. The Queen Mother favors the match, I hear. She wants to marry her granddaughter to her sister's son. So many foreign Royalties lack qualities we demand of a Dutch prince...
...different interpretation from the one he had in mind. His problem finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison's book is written like a detective story, suspense false clues and all. But the answer, held back till the last chapter, will come to many readers like an anticlimax after a breathless prelude. Author Morison's answer is: Jesus Himself...
...provisions of the will of Major Henry Lee Higginson, donor of the Union. Opposition to the proposal so to employ the Union has been based on an expressed wish of Major Higginson's that the character of the Union as an undergraduate club be not changed. The authorities answer this objection by pointing out that the will permits of change in view of the mediocre success of the Union as it is at present organized. It is planned that the innovation will provide the Freshmen with a suitable commons and with a club such as Major Higginson desired and more...