Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behave themselves they would be shot." ''Not so," replied Putzy. ''Did you not also," Sir Patrick continued, "say that 'Catholic priests are swines and traitors-swines, all swines! All Catholics are swines?' " To this Dr. Hanfstaengl fervently replied: "Preposterous! . . . Such a remark would include the present Leader of Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who is also a Roman Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called upon him at Berlin in behalf of the German pacifist widely mentioned this year for the Nobel Peace Prize...
...hardly believe my eyes; and I don't see why it must be so!" And with that remark Alice put the newspaper down and her cheeks flushed a pretty crimson...
Alice felt quite puzzled at the Dodo's last remark, but all she said was: "Why wouldn't it be easier to make the pans and ovens a little bigger...
Painter Monet heard the remark and thereafter scrupulously signed his canvases Claude Monet. Later Monet and Manet became fast French friends. Though their names, their style, their faces and their beards were very much alike, Frenchmen of the 19th Century had no great difficulty differentiating between them...
Monet had but two interests, painting and gardening. Paris appalled him. He is never known to have made a quotable remark. Manet and his friends Degas and Clemenceau could and did trade epigrams with the sharpest tongues of the Second Empire. He was Parisian to the core, a dandy in his dress...