Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large percentage of your readers must be imbeciles to judge from the lists they send you of "Biggest Charles" [TIME, Jan. 17] and "Biggest J. B.s" [TIME, Feb. 1]. Although this whole procedure is absolutely idiotic, may I remark that as "John" is the commonest American name there are undoubtedly more famous Americans named "John" than anything else. No doubt "Big Johns" also head the lists of bootleggers, stamp lickers, hash eaters, sword swallowers, garbage men and street sheiks. If your readers have nothing better to do I can start them out on a list of "Big Johns" which they...
...Manhattan, one Saul Fernandez was entertaining some ladies and gentlemen in his home at No. 121 W. 79 St. When Guest Juan Jacuevas uttered an improper remark to a young lady, Host Fernandez leaped at him, seized him by the throat, grasped his nose in his strong white teeth, bit off that nose. Mr. Jacuevas called a policeman. Mr. Fernandez was arrested...
...question," some one has well said, referring to one of our modern writers, "whether Pegasus or a screech-owl is hovering over Chicago." This remark may with some extension be applied very appropriately to much of modern art, and particularly modern verse, not only in America but perhaps even to a greater extent in Europe. There is a storm and stress in present day art called Expressionism, whose chief manifestation seems to be a centrifugal stress from a central storm,--a limitless seeking for the bizarre; an aestheticising of the ugly...
...have uttered when his only sister, Princess Mary, married Viscount Lascelles (Feb. 28, 1922). Said Edward of Wales, reputedly, on that occasion: "Every day I get commoner and commoner, and every day Lascelles gets royaler and royaler." To Lord Lascelles and others of the landed peerage, the remark has seemed to have a backhand twist not inappropriate to Slummer Edward...
...enlightenment for which Abraham Lincoln, wilderness boy, so hankered-Lincoln Memorial University issued a dignified statement to the public that it needed a million dollars to go on with its work. To describe the handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed to it by its good friend, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times. Mr. Ochs had said: "You are boring with a gimlet when you should be using an augur...