Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standpatters smiled indulgently. At one burst of applause, the young man bowed deeply and said: "It is so unusual for a Republican from Wisconsin to receive applause at a National Republican Convention that I thank you most sincerely." Then, lest politeness detract from potency, he asked that the remark be stricken from the record. But everyone remembered the politeness and before the young man left the platform he had cause to take more bows, hand over heart, actor-fashion. Everyone enjoyed it and the thunderous "No" that soon buried the Minority Platform had a chuckle...
...physical accommodation and manipulation of the 1089 delegates at the Convention Hall itself was entrusted to a Major R. A. Gunn of Chicago, who reached Kansas City last fortnight. A "troubleshooter" is what Major Gunn called himself, † "I will provide everything except whiskey," he said. This remark cleared Major Gunn of any connection with a $25,000 shipment of alcoholic goods, marked "phosphate" (fertilizer) and consigned vaguely to Kansas City, which was seized last week in Alabama en route from Florida...
Berliners were startled, last week, by a sly remark reported to have been let fall by Soviet Ambassador to Germany, Comrade Nicholas Krestinsky...
...Remark: Whereas 3,500,000 Germans voted the Communist ticket at the recent German Election (TIME, May 28), the total membership of the Communist Party in Russia is slightly more than...
This article finds its starting-point in a remark recently made by a student of a sister institution, a member of the staff of its college weekly, to the effect that the faculty adviser read every word in every issue before the paper was printed. Every sheet of copy, every page of proof, he said, had to bear the censor's initials; and the printers had been instructed not to go to press until the faculty adviser had given his official...