Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet public opinion," said Izvestia ("News"), official organ of the Soviet Government, "cannot fail to remark in President Roosevelt's speech the number of views directly coinciding with the ideas for which Soviet diplomacy alone hitherto has fought consistently...
...from denying such charges, oilmen plaintively asserted that this was merely what they had been directed to do by the New Deal and NRA. Best summary yet of the situation from the oilman's point of view was the remark of one executive: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...
...first Judge Stone ruled against Attorney Donovan, but presently he modified his ruling, which was a major victory for the defense. With the death of NRA, the Government's price-fixing and stabilizing ideas became generally nonstatutory. Strongly supporting defense contentions, however, is many a past remark by President Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes. Last week Judge Stone ordered Attorney Donovan to cease quoting President Roosevelt, but Secretary Ickes is not likely to get off so easily, for he committed his ideas to writing in a letter to none other than the man the prosecution last week accused of being...
...Gertrude Stein's remark to him ("You are all a lost generation") he used as motto for The Sun Also Rises, whence it took its wide currency. *Croaked the N. Y. Herald Tribune's Isabel Paterson: ''There is no loftiness of spirit in his books, and a book must have a soul to be great." Max Eastman accused Hemingway of having "... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome...
...first be confronted be a series of sketches some of which seem to be nothing more than amplified geometrical patterns. Or others of them may seem like drawings that were started with one subject in the mind of the artist and finished with an entirely different one. The disdainful remark of "Huh, surrealism!" may be stimulated by Mr. Lougee's work. All these peremptory thoughts are actually unfair, for abstractions of Mr. Lougee's type merit a more mature consideration...