Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After putting this quaint remark thoroughly through its paces, Stanley Baldwin said that in his opinion Abraham Lincoln was "one of the greatest men produced by our race...
Nominee Smith returned to the as-yet-undefended illegal renewal of Oilman Sinclair's lease in the Salt Creek field, Wyoming, by National G. O. P. Chairman Hubert Work when he was Secretary of the Interior last winter (TIME, Oct. 22). He requoted Dr. Work's famed remark: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases." He quoted Nominee Hoover's one comment: "I will not discuss that matter." The textile depression in New England was a fair target for the critic of Coolidge Prosperity. Nominee Smith cited the average wage of textile workers, $17.30 per week, and contrasted...
...however, take issue with Hooverizer Hughes on the subject of platform etiquette. He conserved radio time by hushing the gallery orators and plunging straight into Prohibition. His text was Hooverizer Hughes' remark, a few days prior in Missouri, about the Prohibition issue being a "sham battle...
...Hooverizer Hughes's remark last week in Chicago, that "the Democrats, to take Smith's tariff plan, will have to eat more crow than the Democratic stomach can stand," the Smith retort was: ''What a delicious pot of crow the Governor [Hughes] is compelled to witness his party eating on the Federal Reserve Bank system.'' Then he announced that all Democratic members of and candidates for Congress had been telegraphed and asked if they would stand by the Smith tariff declaration. Four-fifths of these Democrats had replied in the affirmative, "the other 20% being away on campaign tours." Then...
...self-portraits has been acquired by the Ferargil Galleries. The stately, long-nosed Sir Joshua wears the rickety spectacles that were harbingers of his pitifully failing eyesight. For him, shining satins would not much longer shine. Shortly after completing this prophetic portrait he made a stoically doleful remark. "All things have an end," he said, "and I have come to mine...