Word: afterthought
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Example: As an afterthought Peter Kuerten said: "I suppose my first murder was really committed when I was a boy of nine. I pushed two of my playmates into the Rhine and kept them under water with a pole...
Recently the president of Notre Dame university made a portentous statement along the same line. He said that a good university could get along without any football team at all. But he spoiled it by adding, apparently as an afterthought, that a good football team generally went with a good university...
...Edison contest-will have as his classmate and scholarly competitor one of the Second Brightest Boys. When they emerge from M. I. T. four years hence (if both are graduated), the marks of Students Huston and Brunissen will certainly be compared, analyzed, editorialized in the public prints. As an afterthought Louis Delafleur of Utica, New York's "bright boy," hitherto undistinguished among 44 unrewarded contestants, was given the tuition rejected by Bright Boy Brunissen...
Having scattered these pearls of English vernacular before their Lordships, Baron Gorell announced that he is drafting a bill "to prohibit mock or bogus auctions" As an afterthought he added that "deuce phunt" means...
...what looked like a hearty afterthought, Vice President Dawes and eight members of Congress scribbled their names last week upon a cablegram to the Nobel Committee, Norwegian Storting, Oslo. The cablers declared that they, "duly qualified for making recommendations," did recommend U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg for the Nobel Peace Prize. His and M. Briand's Multilateral Peace Treaty was advanced in his favor...