Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Last Saturday night, I happened to be in the Wardell apartment hotel (one of the most exclusive apartment hotels in this city), where I was agreeably surprised to note five copies of TIME in the letter rack. My remark to the clerk on the popularity of the publication brought forth this reply: "Yes, sir; about half the people in this hotel read TIME-have you ever read it?" OWEN MACCAFFERTY Detroit, Mich...
People who compared the Tribune's performance with the attitudes of other newspapers were reminded of a remark once credited to Mrs. Lena Wilson Stillman, which seemed to summarize the entire event: "Nice people are nice the whole world over...
Famed Private Terence Mulvaney, central character in Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three stories, used to carry around with him a picture of himself in a Corporal's uniform, and remark sadly: "I was a Corporal once, but I was rejuced...
...enterprise must be raised among music patrons. While Mr. Poitras is in France, the work of incorporating and financing is handled in part by Erik Huneker, son of the late James Gibbons Huneker, famed music critic of the Sun, Times, World. To James Gibbons Huneker is attributed the remark "Nothing succeeds like insincerity." His influence is seen in the writing of such critics as George Jean Nathan who love to employ dynamite prose for blowing up anything at all just to see how it looks in little bits. "Steeplejack" Huneker, as he was known, liked to exasperate the uplifters...
...schoolboy. None would have added the idea that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...