Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of the good ones now. But significant is the fact that in the thin receiving-line of operatic debutantes there are three Americans. This is Manager Gatti-Casazza's second answer to the drone of those who protest that the Metropolitan ignores native talent. His first?a remark made last year?was: "Find me an American Caruso, bring me the score of a U. S. Meistersinger...
...note at or near the bottom of Column 2, Page 8, of your issue of the 19th in stant the statement, "Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate Veteran, the only Roman etc." Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark...
Orville Wright. As Mr. Wright came before the Board he was greeted by Chairman Morrow with the remark: "Here is the man who is responsible for all this problem." He urged in his brief testimony that the Government aid civil aviation especially by supplying landing fields, lights, weather reports and other aids to flying. He did not favor Mr. Madden's proposal that the Army and Navy give up their experimental work...
...never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily retired from the bench and did not sit on the case. Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark that he had jurisdiction over the entire U. S. except the Fuller home and family. Justice Brandeis doubtless feels in much the same...
...With the second-rate law schools turning out mediocre lawyers as fast as they now are, every man of real competence in the profession is assured of all the business he can possibly handle during the rest of his natural life." This remark, made by a Boston attorney in private conversation the other day, is interestingly borne out by the statement just published of the average yearly carnings of the members of the Harvard Law School class of 1905. The report, covering 119 men, shows an average professional income of $18,634. Moreover, a close analysis shows that this high...