Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock express made a serpentine suggestion of reality in the passing below the cemetery. And then, refreshed, they went home to dream of pastures pekinese and anti-poodle, pastures fairer than Charmington and much more honest. And they remembered the joke which has long made Charmington famous, a remark of Cartrack herself--"You can't teach a pekinese new profanity...
Defense attorney Farinacci was not slow to pour out scathing words upon such witnesses. The trial continued. Cynics recalled a petulant remark made by Mussolini, just after the murder was committed and before the body was discovered...
...real job in producing a successful football team next year doesn't lie with me, or the other coaches who will be appointed later, but with you men who are going to make up the team," was Horween's opening remark on next season's program. "I'll be here to tell you everything I know and to give you all the help I can, but it is you who are going to actually play the games, and it is with you that the ultimate success of the season must rest. I am proud to come to Harvard to coach...
...CRIMSON reporter asked Mr. Davison what he thought of the extreme tendency in modern poetry toward freedom of form. "I thing I can answer that question best by telling you something I recently heard. 'Modern free verse the remark went, 'is no more a new form of poetry than sleeping in a ditch is a new form of architecture.' I think there is perhaps a great deal in that. In my own work I am inclined to adhere more to the conventional forms of meter and rhyme. I am proud to say that I am not one of those...
...Gest walked restlessly back and forth in the hotel room hired for publicity purposes and then stopped suddenly with the remark, "I know it's impossible to convince the public that any theatrical producer is ever impelled by any other than trousers pocket motives. Most of the stuff that's put on the stage today would never be produced if it were not for the big financial income expected from it. But if it were true that I had no reasons for my work outside of money I would have spent the rest of my life putting on shows with...