Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics!" So exclaimed Sir James Hopwood Jeans, eminent British mathematician, for the benefit of struggling scholars. But he did not mean the remark literally. It was a sentence he had thought up to help them remember pi (the quotient of diameter into circumference) carried out to the 14th decimal (3.14159265358979) by the number of letters in each word...
...other day our lady Vice-Principal got onto a street car. She was wearing a brand new dress. I heard a woman in the seat back of me remark to her friend: 'Ain't it awful the way these women dress? You can't tell school teachers from ladies now a days.' . . . Tom shambled into my conference room and lounged in a chair; the pool of his clear honest eyes was troubled. He liked the girl, he said, awfully, but he wished she'd not 'paw' him, they weren't engaged...
...charger he leads his mercenaries into battle and pushes back with long, stiffened fingers the cloaks attached to various 18th Century uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because of a remark the latter has passed about his (Crack's) mother. Best shot: Crack, at the battle front, making sissified King Leopold (Lowell Sherman) drop a handkerchief as a signal for shooting an officer...
...Jersey's best and biggest Republican wigs gathered last week at Atlantic City for a farewell feast to Walter Evans Edge, once their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month...
...Said he: "Newspapering is a young man's game. . . . And a newspaperman is young only as long as he can successfully kid himself. I kidded myself because I kept on thinking smugly that I was Somebody. . . . [ Manhattan newspapermen] love to come into the office of a morning to remark. -met Noel Coward at Condé Nast's roof party last night and Noel tells me -.' Or, '- So John D. Jr., was standing in the stern of Vincent Astor's yacht (he's a swell guy when you get to know him) and I said...