Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...political organization, unlike a business organization, generally closes ranks defensively about a member whose honesty comes in question. But last week the Republican party opened wide its ranks to let Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the national committee, stalk out of office. Mr. Huston wondered aloud why the political pack had deserted him after the discovery of his temporary deposit of Muscle Shoals lobby funds in his private stock margin account...
...March 31: . . . Mr. Lloyd George is a man of great charm and very amusing. He held forth on the Irish question and said when he had the various leaders before him he could never get from them what they wanted. The President said he would simply turn the whole matter over to the Irish people if he were the British Government and reserve the motion picture rights...
...Perhaps because of its gravity, this question attracted most public interest: You are the head of an expedition which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your companions are: 1. A brilliant scientist 60 years old. 2. Two half-breed guides ages 58 and 32. 3. The scientist's wife-interested mainly in society matters, age 39. 4. Her little son, age six. 5. The girl you are engaged to marry. 6. Your best friend...
Enterprising newspapers sent out reporters to put this question to theologians, psychologists, men-in-the-street. One opinion, printed in the New York Herald Tribune, came from Director George Herbert Sherwood of the American Museum of Natural History. Said he: "Presumably if anyone is to reach civilization at all, there must be one guide selected for the trip. If the two guides are equally effective, I should select the younger man as probably possessing the greater stamina. Under such circumstances, there is no doubt in my mind but that the leader should remain. There is little probability that...
Edison representatives thwarted efforts by the press to find the full answer to the desert question, or any other question, given by the winner-freckle-faced, pompadoured Arthur Olney Williams, Jr., 17, of East Providence, R. I. As soon as his victory was announced his 48 competitors lifted him on their shoulders, cheered "One, two-good luck to you, Williams!" Winner Williams announced that he would go to M. I. T. If he had not won the scholarship, he said, he would have worked his way through his hometown institution, Brown. His father is chief clerk in the Provident...