Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumnus, Mr. Harvey S. Gruver G. '10, of Lynn, announced the offer yesterday for "a song which can appropriately be sung at gatherings of students or alumni." It is likely that his action was inspired by a remark about the lack of such a song, made in a speech by Dean Holmes at a recent dinner...
...head. Thus, creeds with and without affirmation of the Virgin Birth, would be accepted by the Church. "The Church is greater than the creeds." This idea coincides with Bishop Lawrence's famous utterance : "I cannot define the Triune God," and, from a different point of view with Voltaire's remark: "I will believe in God if you will stop trying to define him." Liberals contend that the spirit of Jesus cannot be caught and perpetually held in any immutable creed...
George Bernard Shaw presented to the world, with the season's greetings, three gifts?a play, a speech, a remark...
...remark he sent through Collier's Weekly in response to a typically American request for his views on Santa Claus. The remark was: "Santa Claus be bio wed!?(signed) G. Bernard Shaw, Adelphi Terrace, London...
...guard King George V at his coronation. He always scoffed at tales of romance in "detecting" and ran his business with method and thoroughness. Intimately connected with the Theatre, he covered the walls of his office with photographs of famed actors and actresses. He delighted to repeat the remark of a visiting English detective: "These are, I suppose, representative American criminals...