Word: exclaims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lacking a sharp critical sense or the appetite for one, Reynolds is so confessedly fond of all kinds of people that his Collier's bosses have turned the trait into a shop gag. They say that Reynolds, dispatched to do a story on a big manufacturer, returned to exclaim: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Home from inter viewing the President of the U.S., he cried: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Back from interrogating a Jack the Ripper, he foamed: "A great guy! A wonderful man! Boy, how he can cut throats." On at least one occasion, Reynolds...
...posterior." He tolerates no idle questions from pupils during lessons, describes with admiration how a stern old master taught the late great French fencer Kirchhoffer to relax. The master used to put Kirchhoffer on guard, then go away. After several minutes he would return, feel Kirchhoffer's arm, exclaim : "Your arm is tense. You will never be a fencer...
...first exhibited is diametrically opposed to decent aesthetic standards; a work of art has no functional value when--as was the case Monday night--it occupies a forgotten place on the wall of a room containing some of the finest stuffed shirts in the community. "How like Cezanne," they exclaim, as they bob up and down within their protective layers of starch. Perhaps the following quotations will better illustrate my point. The first two are from the remarkably fine catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. Writing of Rouault, the author states, "he would arrive promptly at four, puffing hard, his clothes...
Rookie Martin's batting and running won him an outfielder's job and the Cardinals the National League pennant. That fall Pepper Martin won the World Series from the Athletics almost by himself. He made twelve hits, stole five bases, moved hard-bitten old John McGraw to exclaim: "The greatest World Series player I ever saw." Though Pepper Martin never again reached his 1931 World Series form, he became the most fabulous figure in baseball. They called him "The Wild Horse of the Osage." He was the loudest and toughest of the Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once...
...Columbia, 22,000 commencement visitors cheered British Ambassador Lord Lothian as he was kudized, heard President Nicholas Murray Butler exclaim (by proxy): "The call is for every civilized human being who believes in justice, in liberty and in public morals. The bell is ringing...