Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have no quarrel with Mr. Wright's withering and embracing method of condemning Thackery and the British Empire. I repeat, no quarrel with the method. But, since I have sung praise of positiveness in criticizing let me remark that such opinion, no matter how ably put, is nonsense. ALFRED PUTNAM...
During the afternoon the House debate dragged, but at night the discussion became more lively. It was marked by several disturbances of a personal nature. Congressman Burnett, of Alabama, while attacking Kitchin, found occasion to direct a remark to Congressman Heflin, from his own state. The two Alabama members commenced such a furor that it was necessary for Sergeant-at-Arms Gordon to raise the mace to quiet the disorder...
Doubtless Mr. Russell's attitude toward the war and toward nationalism motivated some of the remarks--remarks such as this: "The chair demands a philosophical scholar who is an ethical thinker of distinction, and Mr. Russell with his provocative individualism, is hardly that." Why, indeed, must all distinguished ethical thought be anti-individualistic? Is only the man who swallows tradition, keeps in the straight and narrow path of past systems of morals, and who, above all, agrees with you--is only he a distinguished ethical thinker? Clearly, it is not Mr. Russell's distinction as a philosopher against which...
...Almost immediately after there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were...
...finally bends the horsewhip, is a perennially appearing subject. But here, too, there are bright spots. Mr. Henderson's local color is well painted; his realism (although I draw the line at mention of "Aunt Hitty's old entrails" being "stirred to the depths"--especially after Mr. Gowdy's remark that Jim Gowan's rival had not "a white spot in 'im from the guts up") is undeniably effective...