Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...Remark about girl as a "broad...
...adopt a slightly cynical attitude toward comments made in my annual report for 1927-28 on withdrawing coaches from the direct supervision of intercollegiate games. The subject is not a new one and perhaps does not require any detailed discussion at just this moment. I venture, however, to remark upon one of two considerations which affect the whole matter...
This statement was made yesterday by Robert E. Rogers '09, to a CRIMSON reporter, when the M. I. T. professor was questioned with regard to his remark during an address to Technology seniors last Commencement, when he advised them to "put up a big front, and cultivate snobbery." At the same time he pointed to Harvard undergraduates as an example of what snobbery...
...greatly surprised at the comment my stray remark caused in the press. Lately I have received newspaper clippings from places as distant as Cape Town, Madras, and Ceylon. I don't mind what editors say about me, having been one myself. But I do dislike to be misunderstood...