Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experienced since she entered the cinema industry in 1932. The Hearst editorials she inspired, however useful they may have proved as publicity for Klondike Annie, were not intended to be laudatory. They were part of a sudden Hearst campaign against Miss West supposedly inspired by a slighting remark she was reported to have made about Cinemactress Marion Davies. While they ballyhooed the picture with angry editorials, Hearst papers paradoxically refused to carry paid advertising...
...Actress Conklin kept The Pursuit of Happiness alive for 250 performances. Before Miss Conklin had perfected her technique of being winsome, dumb and sexy all at the same time, she hoofed obscurely in the choruses of several musicals, played in half a dozen inferior legitimate shows without exciting much remark. She was born 26 years ago in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. Last summer she married a Wall Streeter named James Daniel Thompson. Less attractive on the screen than behind footlights, she appeared in The President Vanishes and One-Way Ticket. Champagne is her favorite drink. She plays ping-pong...
...organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...
Recently an assistant in a large Comparative Literature course complacently remarked that he made himself as inaccessible as possible by posting no office hours except after classes and by refusing to allow a telephone in his lodgings. This man draws his salary from the Corporation for no other duties than correcting examination papers and advising students. His remark is evidence that he is in the wrong profession; his philosophy of teaching is all wrong. He is evading his duty. He is not a good teacher and never will be, if his remark is an accurate comment on his attitude toward...
...Brooklyn. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, a Republican performer who has for years been packing the U. S. Senate's galleries made another oblique bid for the Presidency. Well equipped for the role, with locks as long as Booth's, 70-year-old Hamlet Borah began with the candid remark: "I do not natter myself that I can bring to you any new or startling message. "I am not going ... to indulge in what must be a pleasant pastime, that of regaling one's personal qualifications for [the Presidency]," continued the Senator from Idaho. "But . . . that brings...