Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emerson could say of Thoreau that his thyme and marjoram were not yet honey, it will be forgiven a critic of The Harvard Advocate, I hope, to remark that the Freshman number just out is more than usually undigested. It is pleasant of course to observe reflections of standard authors in the work of students, and doubly so to have a dash of Latin and Greek quotations. But the results are more satisfactory if the tyro adapts his production rather than copies the originals closely. There are interesting speciments of various stages of playing the sedulous ape in the current...
...freshman, lost amid a pile of grips, packages and steamer rugs, and finally unwound and revealed in the college office is the best of the lot. But who are the strange individuals in it masquerading as Deans? Can one of them be Mr. Whitney? We should like pleasantly to remark first that the "multitude of shins" idea, embodied in one of Ibis's "inklings" is as old, about, as Don Marquis (He isn't really very old); secondly, that the apologies under the "letter of a Japanese Freshman"--and quite the best bit of prose in the issue--would...
...fortnight ago, General Dawes stood in the wet outside the Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., posed with his famed pipe for the benefit of patient photographers. Before the cameras clicked, he made a remark. Three Manhattan dailies recorded that remark thus...
...because Mr. LaFollette is thus running without running that Frank R. Kent (famed political writer) made the remark, perhaps a bit stringent but yet with an element of truth: "Either Mr. Coolidge or Mr. Davis may be elected President. LaFollette is safe in saying and doing a lot of things impossible for them. They might have to 'make good.' He will not be called...
...Nations that fought by our side while the War was raging, and that now share with us the responsibility of bringing peace and security to Europe." He then went on to stress the series of failures to solve the reparations problem, to discuss the Experts' Report, to remark that "the Report demands not only obligations from Germany but from us," to emphasize the need of unity among the assembled representatives. Said he: "Without unity there can be no security; without security there can be no peace...