Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark. In the third row, beside the aisle, handling his books and papers, the downright Robinson, Democratic leader, maintained a watchful eye on the course of legislation, now and then casting in a tart remark or direction...
...well-grounded in its turn of thought if somewhat humorously crabbed in expression. For those untouched, untroubled souls to whom the phrase "neo-Poseidous, earth-shaking young men", as applied to the Advocate, may perhaps convey, less meaning than the Advocate could wish, it should be enough to remark that there is here implied a never-failing source of debate for conferences of policy and editorial banquets...
...school here which half-staffed its flag on the death of Lenin and which systematically prepares its disciples for teaching positions trine that democracy and capitalism are failures which can only be wiped out by bloody revolution. An assistant principal who is one of its pupils made the remark to me, "You mustn't object to revolution as a means of improving our government; this country was founded on a revolution." I see a considerable difference between the American Revolution against the tyranny of George III. and a revolution of the workers against majority rule in a democracy...
...possess ours." He disclaimed any intention of aggrandizement on the part of the U. S., or a desire to exercise "a sphere of influence." The reception was followed by a luncheon for the Embassy .staff, given by the President. Senor 'Obregon invited American correspondents to join, with the remark: "My table is not too good for representatives of the American press...
...World for saying that he was understood to be the publisher to whom President Harding had referred as saying one thing in private conversation and another thing in his paper. Not content with one apology, Mr. Hearst brought libel suit in England and secured an apology for the same remark from the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., and the Continental Daily Mail. Having produced a letter from the late President showing the assertion to be false, Mr. Hearst magnanimously accepted an apology and an arrangement for the costs, gave the "story" due prominence on his front pages, and closed the damage suit...