Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubtful whether there is a great man in history who would not, as a valet, have pilfered from his master." The style is quicker on its feet, less mannered, than before. Occasionally, as indicated, Author Arlen squares off too noticeably for a purple passage, a witty remark...
Mayor Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: "Last week I paused, before signing an ordinance creating the job of 'bull cook' at a municipal hydro-electric work camp, to remark: 'It seems that the [City] Council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...
...only that, will make the people believe in it. ... From the time he leaves Manhattan Island and crosses over into the United States, he'll be for the 18th Amendment." Earlier in the day before attentive students at Syracuse University, Senator Borah mildly dismissed Republican problems with the remark: "I think he [President Coolidge] is entitled to the nomination and can have it if he wants it. He would be a strong candidate. ... It is my personal belief that he will...
...fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon...
...Either Sharkey or myself will meet Tunney next fall, that's a cinch", said Maloney. "I don't want to appear boastful, but I can't see any other way out of it." In connection with his last remark, he hurriedly added that he thought modesty was as necessary as any other quality in a prizefighter's makeup. "As soon as you get to thinking you're invincible you're bound to let up and then you're done in this game...