Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallant Dr. Robertson, TIME'S profound apologies for attributing to him a remark supposed to have been overheard by Joseph Nearing, one of the first men to reach the entombed physician and his living and dead companions. Last week Overseer Scadding, the other survivor, was in danger of having ten gangrenous toes amputated as a result of the accident...
With these views, spoken in an honest, cracker-barrel voice which showed that Alf Landon's efforts to improve his strident, monotonous radio delivery have brought results, hardly a citizen, from President Roosevelt down, could well differ. Nor could they disagree with another remark of Governor Landon's in the course of his interview: "Good intentions are not enough...
...while simple in many ways, exhibit a certain amount of sharpness and craftiness of an unexpected type. . . . One of these twins has an illegitimate baby girl of 2 years, but neither the other members of the family nor any outsider knows which twin is the mother. The only remark that can be elicited from the pair of them is: 'We have one baby between...
Sirs: My attention has been repeatedly called to a paragraph in the April 13 issue of TIME in which it was stated that H. J. Heinz Co. had contributed foods that had been under Pittsburgh flood waters to the Red Cross. . . . This remark is not true and is unfair to H. J. Heinz Co., and to the Red Cross as well. When Mr. Howard Heinz, president of H. J. Heinz Co., saw the devastating effects of the St. Patrick's Day flood, he immediately gave us two cars of food products-one for Pittsburgh and half a car each...
...House floor when he clashed again with Representative Blanton. "The gentleman from Texas once said I was doped," he roared. "And I shall put it into the record that the gentleman from Texas is a son of a Texan. On second thought I'll revise my remark and leave a blank for the final word." Representative Blanton charged at him, was subdued by colleagues. Few days later the Representative from Washington took up his feud once more. This time the House soundly rebuked him by voting 274-to-0 to expunge his remarks from the record...