Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outs, notably the gardens of Versailles, and be it said softly, he has never been enthusiastic for them. Purely incidentally it has occurred to the Vagabond that styles in gardens show a marked relation to history and literature. A chance for a new department possibly? And after that remark the Vagabond had better retire...
...remark that the regulations for investigation rights inherent in the League of Nations do not apply in the present case. However, the Hungarian Government as a courtesy to the Council's President, will ask the purchaser of the goods to leave them untouched where they...
...CONGRESS), President Coolidge volunteered no comment. But, as every one knows, so soon as a subject of pressure is corked in one place, it is likely to leak out in another. Last week, anxious to guess what President Coolidge was thinking about the 1928 election, people passed around a remark, attributed to Son John Coolidge. Asked what he was going to do the coming summer, John Coolidge was said to have let slip: "Go to Europe, I guess, unless Father runs again...
Such is the case of M. Pierre Weber, who has taken as personal affront the remark of M. Rostand, fils, that his play was vile and did not contain a single amusing word. Whether or not the young author's anger was aroused by the first or the second of the allegations is beside the point. In any event, his friends sought out the critic with a challenge. After deliberating during the week-end, M. Rostand made it known that he would not be one to set a precedent of killing playrights since such "recourse to arms was inadmissible...
Seymour Lowman, U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, took the opportunity to make another remark of the sort which has not endeared him to his sober superiors. Said Mr. Lowman, sarcastically: "One of the greatest accomplishments of my term in this office is the reformation of Jimmy Walker. Another soul has been redeemed...