Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permit me to remark that it was a singular and sensational accomplishment...
...cheers everywhere drowned them out. A few hecklers he handled deftly, but now & then, even in rural regions where he met the warmest welcome, he failed to stir a crowd to the enthusiasm it was ready to give. Then he would abandon his troublesome notes and drop in a remark which always got response: "I guess you folks are down here to look me over. That goes both ways. I'm glad to look you over, too." But most successful moment in every rear platform audience was when, his talking done, he grinned his natural grin, leaned down...
...thousands of horse races he has seen since, Mr. Jacobs has bet on remark ably few. Unlike most trainers, who hope to enlarge their earnings by wagering on their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from prizes. By 1929 he had achieved his ends sufficiently to impress a Florida colonel, one Isidor Bieber, who hired him to train his B. B. Stable. Last year Hirsch Jacobs bought the Bieber horses, settled down to work in earnest. Since 1933, the first year he led the list...
...urge you in formulating your recommendation for Congress to note a remark that the dean of investment-company managers, the man who stood at the top of his profession throughout the world, whose companies' assets are reputed to total the equivalent of $500,000,000, the late Robert Fleming of London, made many years ago to us. He said in substance: 'Don't tie yourself up with too many restrictions. Restrictions that you think today are for the best interests of investors will rise up some day to plague you-and will not protect them...
...intention of breaking records in the matter of being graduated with the least possible amount of studying, even though it evinces a certain arch pride in pointing out that it, too, occasionally depends on bluff to answer Mr. Cram's essay questions. Recently a Yardling was heard to remark with a lifted eyebrow and a smug smile to an apparently shocked companion: 'You know, I didn't crack a book all day yesterday...