Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Drink will not be served at any of the company canteens," he soothed. "And I think I can answer your other question. Ah-ha! 'How are we going to find out if a man drinks at home?' Well, ah, we don't go into his home to see, gentlemen. That's all there...
...straight question," broke in another Englishman. "What means will you use to find out if a man is drinking in his private time? Will your workmen at Dagenham [new Ford British works] be followed into their homes and penalized for exercising their private rights? Will you give a straight answer to that...
...question of the Church of England, however, or, indeed, in regard to the Bishops, there is no revolt; there is merely silent nonconformity...
...Lexington Battlefield and to call him one of the three foremost defenders and upholders of Liberty and the Constitution (TIME, Sept. 29). It had furnished him a text for a national radio speech on the sanctity of the U. S. passport and had given his newshawks a standing heckle-question for the State Department: what was the U. S. going to do about the indignity suffered by its great citizen? The State Department up to last week was still replying: Nothing...
...human centre of Swift's life-his relations with "Stella"' and "Vanessa"'- has always been a mystery, is not cleared up by Van Doren. Two women were in love with Swift all their lives; he married nobody. Van Doren states the difficulties, then begs the question. "He may have been impotent, gossip suggests . . . . he may have had syphilis . . . he may . . . have married Stella privately. . . . But all these arguments ... are ... as good as another. Not one of them is as simple and sufficient as the conclusion that Swift . . . was only, in marriage as in other matters, extraordinary...