Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Philip Hill is a well-dressed Congressman from Maryland, socially inclined. There has been some very small talk about ejecting him from Congress on the grounds that he has deliberately violated the Volstead Act. Congressman Hill picked up this small talk and hurled it home with the following remark: "If the Drys throw me out of Congress, they will make me the first Wet President of the United States...
Such was J. D. Woodruff's opening remark in the Harvard-Oxford debate last night thereby giving his audience food for considerable thought, G. H. O. Scaife, the visitors' closing speaker, got off to an almost equally good start...
...youth and slender grace are exactly what one imagines in the young Werther" is the remark of one news critic, while the same speaks a few lines later of the American's "warm, supple, and vibrant voice...
Governor Fred H. Brown (Democrat) of New Hampshire: "An ignorant Manhattan picture company furnished TIME with a picture of ex-Governor Albert Oscar Brown, Republican, who retired last January, when the editor asked for my picture to publish (in the issue of Sept. 10) in connection with my remark: 'The people want coal-not resolutions.' " Avery Hopwood ("bedroom man"): "A San Francisco police judge found a producer and nine actors guilty of presenting 'an indecent and obscene representation,' sentenced each to $50 fine or 25 days in jail, on account of certain passages in Getting Gertie...
Before President Lowell took the floor. Dean Donham '98, explained some of the routine of the school and what is expected of each man. He emphasized the duty of every Harvard College graduate toward-making the new men from other colleges feel at home. He slipped in the remark that "work in the school is looked upon in the same light as a business obligation that an employer expects...