Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in McKeesport, Pa., educated at a private school and never went to college. Instead, he did various jobs for a newspaper and, finally, drifted into the playwriting business via Dulcy. He is short, alert, slightly bald, young, with a funny, short laugh that punctuates almost all his remarks. He is a parlor entertainer of great order and his acting has something of the pantomimic grace and comic pathos of Charlie Chaplin. His gift for making the witty remark might have been his undoing, for it is a rare one and makes for popularity; yet Connolly has kept...
Gallaudet College, TIME, Washington, D. C. New York, N. Y. Mar. 30, 1925. Gentlemen: In the discussion on Page 20 of the Mar. 30 issue of your magazine, entitled "Truth in Advertising," I note an editorial remark which ends up with the statement that many students at Gallaudet College are taught to be chauffeurs and that many people who desire privacy prefer deaf drivers to any kind. I wish to say that this statement is entirely wrong, if it means that graduates or student; of this college are quite often employed as paid drivers and are taught this kind...
...others remark the same. One need only...
...somewhat extraordinary that the Premier, a stanch Conservative, should propose an innovation as startling as broadcasting the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament. It must have shocked a great many grey hairs at Westminster. It was no doubt that "instinctive sanity" which prompted him to remark that the radio would enable millions to hear the debates of the Houses; and surely, as a cynic put it, the "radio world" should not be deprived of listening to the rhetoric of the Premier...
...remark perilously near...