Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straton's revised version of his statement, for it undeniably is a revised version, is a true report of what he said for it conveys what he originally meant in its context by the remark quoted by his critics...
Miss Ford sat before her mirror in that attractive constume of the last act, as the reporter suggested that Henry liked his latest production. "He would," she naively remarked, and then realized that possibly this questioner was a reporter who might publish the remark. Suspicion once aroused, the dressing room underwent a change of atmosphere...
Somehow Miss Ford's next remark, "Well, if I haven't met you before, I hope I never see you again," seemed to disturb the reporter slightly, but he rallied behind his indifference...
...Greek. This is manifestly unfair both to the highly learned masses who went no more than through grammar school, and to the professors of Greek. A glance at the human dramas called advertisements among which Mr. Tarkington's stories are inserted should have long since convinced him that the remark about not having to go to college to get an education is no empty aphorism, and that the university men of his acquaintance have reached their lamentable condition through a hopeless struggle to keep up with the more erudite readers of movie magazines...
...Square with a sign in front of her cakes and confections: "Gentlemen will not, others must not, touch," and John the Orangeman are still historic figures. But there are more modern notables to take their places. Max Keezer, supersleuth, will not soon be forgotten, and the historic remark of Arthur Clement: "The patrol wagon was the only safe place in the Square," will go down through the years even as Mr. Jones's sign. And to uphold professorial traditions, Professor Whitney is strenuously preparing himself against the day when, Professor Merriman's energy failing, the duty of teaching history...