Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suited to the part of Mrs. Pinchwife. Best laugh in the show is the situation, often drawn for The New Yorker by Peter Arno, of a duped husband coming upon his wife in another's arms. In this case old Sir Jasper Fidget is the cuckold and his remark, greeted with wild laughter from the audience, is a mild "how now?" Born in Wollaston, Mass., now a widow of 40, professionally eccentric Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children, Three-Cornered Moon, They Shall Not Die, Ethan Frame) is said to like gefullte fish, poppyseed tarts, icecream sodas...
Morris, whose portrait was painted by most of the Pre-Raphaelites, addressed one remark to Shaw. Annoyed by his vegetarianism, she once served him a rich pudding, told him triumphantly after he had eaten two helpings with relish: "It will do you good; there's suet in it." Thereafter she never said a word...
...Every circumstance in this case points to the guilt of this man," Judge Martineau was moved to remark to the jury after the evidence was in. Peacher was heard to remark: "He don't scare me none. That jury will turn me loose." After nearly three hours the jury pronounced him guilty, recommending he be spared a prison sentence. Immediately Judge Martineau imposed a fine of $3,500, a two-year prison term. Planter Peacher and Arkansas were speechless...
...addition to being football's No. 1 opportunist, Kelley is its most famed comedian. His contributions to the chatter that passes back & forth between two teams on the field, printed after every game, became as famed as Mae West wisecracks. A top Kelleyism was his 1934 remark to the Princeton quarterback whose team, undefeated all season, had fumbled six times in the first ten minutes: "Has the Rose Bowl got handles on it?" At Yale Kelley's nonathletic doings have paralleled his career on the football field. In his sophomore year, he refused to join a fraternity because...
...England's foremost cartoonist, Low has for some time had as his piece-de-resistance an elderly Englishman, ample of girth, in a Turkish bath setting, usually making some remark of a topical nature beginning with...