Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been careful not to talk with the men here in order not to contaminate my ideas, but today I heard a typical remark made by the man next me at the Georgian cafeteria as I leaned over to exchange my meal check for his. He was saying to a friend...
Walter Hagen, golf champion: "While playing in a foursome at Pinehurst I was considerably put off my game by hearing a woman in the gallery remark: 'This man about to play is Higgins and they say he is quite good...
...Addison Sims of Seattle would rise to remark: "I remember you perfectly. Your name is Jas. Q. March. You left me cold in 1898 and you've been fooling around just 30 days and 8 hours too many this year." R. SIMULANY
...ground that it is a whole literature, rather than a book, and merely chooses Isaiah and St. Mark as the two most significant books in the collection. The Koran and the "Great Learning" of Confucius, as the most representative books of two great civilizations, he throws in with the remark that "they were the creative and cohesive powers in the world second only to the Bible". Plato's "Republic" gets a place because Wells found it easy to read on the Downs of Sussex, and because he claims that it gives a sense "of liberation and enlargement". Bacon...
...been definitely ascertained precisely what he was wearing when he made this remark, but the report that Washington hostesses are attempting to exploit the Senator as a curiosity is emphatically dented...