Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an alumnus of Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tenn., I have noticed this with interest since, in the South, this remark has always been attributed to the late William R. ("Old Sawney") Webb who founded Webb School in Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870. Due to the pressure of the local "Wets," "Old Sawney," an ardent Prohibitionist, found it expedient to move. At the request of the townspeople of Bell Buckle, who built him a schoolhouse as an inducement to come, he moved the school there in 1888. In moving, the schoolbody came in spring wagons holding classes...
...leading U. S. Red Cross physician in Ethiopia, Dr. Robert William Hockman, who has made a persistent hobby of investigating dud Italian air bombs, buried a 970-pounder with the remark, "It's got my name on it, for after the war." Investigating what he took to be another dud at Daggah Bur last week, he was blown to atoms...
...friends to accept her husband into their hearts. Miss Lois Hall reveals herself coyly as being in that "amusing condition," which should retie the severed bonds but doesn't. Mr. John Flower, whose role consists of a stalk across the stage in the second act with one deep-voiced remark is satisfyingly and gratifyingly manly...
...garrison town of Aldershot 27-year-old Lance Corporal Mortimer did not have to live in barracks because he had a wife at whose house he was supposed to spend the night. Nobody thought much of his occasional remark that "there are too many females on wheels in this world." For that matter the late, great "Lawrence of Arabia" who died in a motoring accident (TIME. May 27), was also a woman-hater, was also annoyed by women cyclists, and also used to tear over the roads. Five months ago Mortimer started suiting action to his words. In succession...
...benign humor that runs through all Ellis' work is also evident in From Rousseau to Proust. Quoting a line from Restif de la Bretonne's licentious memoirs: "How pretty the girls are at Auxerre!" the aged philosopher observed, "I have found myself independently making precisely the same remark . . . though with none of the results that followed in the case of that impressionable...