Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Prohibition. Prime Minister Bennett during his campaign threatened to have repealed for economic reasons the new Canadian law forbidding the export of liquor to the U. S. Should Minister MacNider fail to avert such repeal, the whole Prohibition smuggling question would come up afresh between the two countries...
...Helen Newington Wills Moody might jeopardize her amateur status by accepting $20,000 bequeathed to her in the will of California's late Senator James Duval Phelan. Said he: "I wish someone would leave me the same amount. ... I think it is absolutely asinine for anyone even to question Helen's procedure...
...Norwegian scientists from the sealer Brattvaag put ashore on desolate White Island northeast of Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...
...chief reason for his great productivity is that he has applied the methods of big business to the art of invention. His is the idea and the plan of work, but the execution is for his subordinates, who never question his drawings. In 24 hours he drew a complete concrete factory so accurately and imaginatively that were it built today no vital changes would be made. The ingenuity with which he overcame early lack of materials is prodigious. While building the first commercial electric light plant he was forced to invent switches, cables, fuses, even the friction tape for splices...
...perfectly that lusty Sylvanus Heythorp who in his extreme old age perpetrated a shady transaction to insure the prosperity of his illegitimate family and who died after an eight-course dinner accompanied by a bottle of champagne, three glasses of port, some vintage brandy. The fact that critics could question the obvious reality of a living man and a skilful actor as against an imagined character proves the vitality of the portrait; certainly no one who goes to the picture without some preconceived ideas about Heythorp could find any fault with Arliss' old-masterly performance. A competent cast gives...