Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Avala reported Stefan Raditch to have provoked Government Deputies by shouting at them: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE!" That his remark does not constitute provocation for murder, among Jugoslavs, was indicated by TIME's comment that, " 'swine' is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments...
Senator Gillett wrote to the New York Times: "The words and insinuation you ascribe to me I neither uttered nor conceived . . . You have been imposed upon ... by a gross perversion and distortion of a harmless remark...
...visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud of her products, noted for their active qualities, making the skin tingle. At her shop, min-istrants to beauty smile when a newcomer tries an application. "Timid women," they 'remark, "are-terrified...
...Doesn't he look well!" has become the stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly...
...offended, threw a concluding sop to women: "Though a woman may not take a revealed part in the conduct of affairs, we need not fall into the error of supposing that she has no influence in deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled so much better than the kings? It is because men govern under women's guidance, whereas women rule by the advice...