Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Much quoted currently is Justice Field's remark when, grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...
...gives so much employment at high wages to the working man, no Labor M.P. seriously opposed Rearmament in debate last week, and in The City shares in British armament and allied firms rose on the Exchange some 20%. Nobody paid much attention to Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps's remark: "We are witnessing the most magnificent subscription to a world suicide pact ever publicized by any country in the world...
...wonder if you would be good enough to make a suitable retraction, in view of the fact that because of the proceedings before the FCC to which your article referred, such a disparaging remark will have a very important bearing on the future of my business, which, in spite of all your correspondent may have led you to believe, is considered by me to be an honorable business from which I take both pride and profit...
...answer to his questionnaire, one ninny paused in a defense of the tutoring schools to remark that the purpose of a college education is to "make you a gentleman", his definition of a gentleman being apparently one who pays another to do what he should do himself. This is not such a bad definition. But although the tutor's method of studying for the exam may not have yielded him the maximum intellectual return, it may be doubted that purely social ambitions drove him to seek further learning. If he went to learn, the tutee had better recant...
...months and years the normal arriving Briton has voiced surprise at the queries of U. S. shipnewsmen about danger of war in Europe and whether Britain was in fear of attack. "You Americans are the ones who worry about war in Europe," has been the usual British remark. "In England we think more about the results of our cricket test matches...