Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doylestown, Pa., Miss Mary Bones was the instructor in athletics: Miss Ruth Steiner, a brawny girl, was the captain of the girls' basketball team. One afternoon, a youth, watching Ruth Steiner as she capered in dusty bloomers, squawked to her teammates, was moved to make an insulting remark. Infuriated, Ruth Steiner asked Miss Bones to make the youth apologize. Miss Bones re- fused, smiling at the intensity of Ruth Steiner. Later when they met on the street, Ruth Steiner grabbed Miss Bones, punched her face, scratched her shoulders, kicked her shins. Last week Ruth Steiner was fined...
...given largely to Senator Glass and to Woodrow Wilson. ... I did some work, which, whether valuable or not, I would rather have appraised by others." At this the farmers nodded sagely. Not so the pressmen. They, more canny critics, immediately began to reflect upon Mr. Reed's latest remark. In 1922 ex-President Wilson, irate because the Demo-crat Reed had helped smother the Versailles Peace Treaty in the Senate had written a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which he said:". . . [Reed] is incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. . . has forfeited...
...worth of plate glass and merchandise in their fellow-citizens' shop windows. They badly damaged the Palace of the League of Nations, to which the U. S. does not belong. Police protected the U. S. Consulate and U. S. Consul Somerville Pinkney Tuck avoided trouble by a quick-witted remark. As he moved, unrecognized among the rioters, a woman stuck a nasty, leering face close to his and shouted loudly: "We wish to kill this American Consul pig!"* "Yes," said Mr. Tuck, "he is a rascal," and went home...
From at least four aspects M. le Senateur Henry de Jouvenel is worthy of remark. He is editor of the great Paris daily Le Matin. He is husband to the superb, the mocking, subtle, obsessing actress "Colette."* He was recently French High Commissioner to Syria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 and Sept. 6, 1926). And he has been for some years a leading member of the commission which goes each September to represent France at the Assembly of the League of Nations. In this role, M. le Senateur perpetrated last week a sensation...
...blue sky, landed on McCook Field. The field was almost literally deserted. So, after a brief conversation with officials, Colonel Lindbergh sailed up in the air once more, reappeared one hour later at the time scheduled for his arrival. Seven thousand citizens, shrilling and cheering, heard Colonel Lindbergh gravely remark on Dayton as an aviation centre...