Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gaston is a bachelor, a fact which caused his sister to remark: "Gaston will be the last of the Doumergues. He never would marry. He always said that our mother and I were enough and that my children were as his; but they don't bear the name of Doumergue, and for such a long, long time there have been Doumergues in this house...
...similar offer was received by a Zoo-Direptor in Boston. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor and omnivorous reader, saw this and of course commented. It remained for Franklin P. Adams (F. P. A.), of The New York World, to remark: 'Here's one original thought,' writes Mr. Brisbane in The American. 'John Cromartie, citizen of New York, writes to the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, saying he'd like to be exhibited in the monkey house with the other primates, to show how much man resembles the ape." It is, as Mr. Brisbane so well puts...
...first been arranged (TIME, May 19). In Belgium, Germany, Central Europe, France, Italy and Britain, the greatest hope was expressed for a happy outcome to the conference; for it was felt that the Experts' Report lay in the balance. It was no overstatement to remark that the Report could not be successfully put into operation unless there was unanimity of opinion between France and Britain...
Hearing several remarks passed in praise of Miss Wills and the reasons given for her poor performance, Suzanne Lenglen was heard to remark: "That's what I call 'bosh.' I've played on all kinds of courts and with all kinds of balls, and class will always tell!" In the invitation tennis tournament held at Roehampton, also a suburb of London, Mrs. Molla Mallory was defeated by her countrywoman, Eleanor Goss. Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup of the U. S. defeated Miss E. H. Harvey of Britain. The scores were: 6-4, 6-1 in the Mallory...
...work with you,' he often told me, 'because you are so thin I can actually embrace you on the stage when an embrace is in order. I cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because I am so fat myself!' " Elsewhere there is this wise remark, "You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will en-'danger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake." The fine old figure of the Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned...