Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that gave free passes to baseball games and other exhibitions their slang name of "Annie Oakleys." President Ban Johnson of the American Baseball League once caught a man who had rented out his season pass. The pass was found to be full of holes, whereupon President Johnson made a remark, the aptness of which his subordinates never forgot: "Looks like Annie Oakley'd been shootin...
...York University is on the so-called football firmament. As yet you have to remark on the recent victories of the coming Eastern football champions, the noteworthy 30-0 whitewash given to Rutgers, etc. The students of New York University do not threaten to revoke their subscriptions to your most interesting periodical, because they like it too much, but still they feel that the meritorious record of the football team representing N. Y. U. deserves mention in your columns. Thank...
Henry Ford: "Last week I was reported as saying to the school children at Gatlinburg, Tenn.: 'This is the first speech I ever made in my life. I am glad to be here and I am glad to see you children all so clean and healthy. That remark will cause some of my party to laugh, but I will explain it later. I thank...
...editorial in today's CRIMSON on the status of the Ph.D. degree is to the point. It answers the arguments of Mr. Marks and Mr. Pingree well enough, but a further remark or two may be in place...
...Your remark [TIME, Sept. 6, p. 6]. "fat and lean Filipino females . . . ambling about naked" is not only bad diction but creates an entirely erroneous mental impression. Filipino is the masculine gender and the word applied to "females" should be 'Filipina"-further there are no adult Filipinas who amble about naked, particularly in the coastal towns, and my experience with these natives since 1900 is that even the so-called wild or "head hunter" tribes of the interior are quite modest...