Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deficient in the use of English. Logically such men, unless they are foreign students, should never have been admitted to Harvard. "The well-educated man" President Eliot once said "is the man who knows how to use his own language well." And last year, incorporating the spirit of this remark in its report, the Faculty Committee on methods of sifting candidates for admission to the University recommended "the exclusion of candidates who cannot write acceptable English, with the understanding that this rule shall not apply to those for whom English is a foreign tongue." Certainly if this recommendation is adopted...
Elder James E. Watson, aided by Elder Lodge, captured the Witch of the World Court and consigned her to the custody of the Foreign Relations Committee with the remark: "May God have mercy on your soul...
Stanley Baldwin appears to have made a most excellent batch of his brief careers as Prime Minister. Before he assumed the office, he lost many American well-wishers by a tactless remark about the American attitude in regard to the British war debt. At home he has failed to start British business on the up-swing toward prosperity. His foreign policy has failed to reopen foreign markets; his internal fiscal policy has taxed England white in order to bring English exchange to par to take advantage of that American inflation which has not yet occurred; and as a last resource...
Lady Astor, Conservative candidate for Plymouth, had a busy time with the hecklers. At one meeting came an impertinent remark from a man which Lady Astor cut short with: "Don't be cheeky, or I will knock that pipe out of your mouth." On another occasion she answered defiantly her Socialist and Communist hecklers with: "I am not going to haul down the Union Jack for the Red flag. It is all very well to say we got our money from the slums. I offer anyone ?500 (about $2,175) if he can find any slums which Lord Astor...
...Hokum" is defined by general consent of the show world as any aged but infallible situation, action or remark which will reduce an audience to laughter, tension or tears...