Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ebenezer Scrooge, chief character in Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, is first introduced as a squeezing, grasping, covetous old hunks, sharp and hard as a flint, whose favorite remark on all subjects, but especially Christmas, is "Bah! Humbug...
...there are two points in it which give me especial satisfaction. The first is your statement that you like "to work with me, whether in opposition or in alliance." That seems to me a rewarding outcome of a long asociation. the other is your remark about my relying "on the Eternal for personal strength." I belong to the barest of the religious communions, and I am by nature reserved except with intimates and even with some of them. I feel glad that what has been, I believe, a fact in my inner life these thirty years past has been visible...
Death came quietly to President Eliot in the sea-washed rugged hills of Mt. Desert Island. There was no blaring of trumpets, no dramatics, only the calm courage which had characterized his life. A few days before the end he startled his nurse with the quiet remark that he would not live out the week. Once or twice the old urge to be up and doing came upon him, but in the main he lay quietly waiting...
...having been regular Republicans like the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and a few having been insurgent Democrats like Senator James A. Reed. But now the tide has swung around and President Coolidge, if he were inclined to squabble with the Senate, might have reason to make such a remark concerning the Republican insurgents. They hold the balance of power today in the 69th Senate; during the next two years in the 70th session their power will be decisive, the votes of any two of them being sufficient to give either the Democrats or Republicans control of the Senate. Calvin...
...Spokane Spokesman-Review comes out of the west long enough to remark that college funny magazines are pathetic objects; their humor, if it may be called such, is execrable in its stupidity--and this in spite of the face that the best professional humorists in America are college men who received their training while on scholastic publications. But when one realizes that collegiate humor is not confined to undergraduates but is typical of many classes of America, the Spokesman-Review's condemnation loses validity. Mr. Pickwick differs from Corey Ford and Crunkshank from John Held; each is admirable...