Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...less perfunctory speeches, the actual work was done for the G. O. P. by plump, glossy-haired Robert Hendry Lucas, who was brought in in August from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to be national executive director. While Chairman Raskob lay low?except to provide money and to answer "Libelous!" last week to an attack on his personal financial behavior during and since the 1929 stock crash?the actual work of the Democrats was done by Jouett Shouse, 51, the horse-faced, horse-minded, Kentucky-born Kansas City lawyer who was called in to be national executive committee chairman...
Comparisons between "A Note In Music" and Miss Lehmann's remarkable first novel. "Dusty Answer", are inevitable. The author does not lose ground by the process; the new book is a worthy successor to one that portrayed adolescent womanhood as no other has done in a generation of novelists who take adolescence as their only subject matter. The actual writing in the second novel is done in that delightfully delicate prose that brought so much praise for the first. The chief difference is in the scope of the two themes. "Dusty Answer" is centered about the life of one girl...
Aside from any last minute merit the volume possesses, it also has value as legitimate review. Used for individual study or with a group, this question and answer survey of the field of English should prove an excellent means of marshalling up one's knowledge. The material for the most part is well organized and of the type suitable for college students. If there are any outstanding weak spots they are to be found in the treatment of the drama, particularly Shakespeare. But, by and large, it presents sound factual information made unusually accessible. It is a book to place...
These are questions to which Harvard men are entitled to know the answer. If the University wants the alumni and undergraduate support which are the very essence of the institution, it can ill afford to continue its present policy of silence and procrastination...
...Claude is positive he can so perfect his machine that it will be commercially efficient. In answer to reported criticisms made by Dr. William J. Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Washington, he retorted: "I may assure you that it is just another example of bad prophecies being useless...