Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most visitors to Moscow this summer have emerged to remark, "Conditions are so much better-so much less Communist." Last week a broadside of decrees from Joseph Stalin's tall-towered Kremlin crystallized the gradual change...
...ships with a speed of 35 knots are from two to three knots faster than their British peers and much better equipped with anti-aircraft guns. After running the long gamut from submarines to capital ships and pulling a long face the whole way, Dr. Parkes comfortably quoted a remark made to him by a distinguished British admiral: "The Italians build better ships than they can fight...
...William Lyon Mackenzie King who last week was having posters printed with the slogan KING OR CHAOS! Actually the electorate showed signs of splitting to candidates of minor radical parties such as normally would give Canada's old guard Conservatives and Liberals no worries whatever. Ominous was a remark by Liberal Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, who upset Ontario's entrenched Conservatives and became Premier (TIME, July 2, 1934). On a national electioneering swing last week, "Mitch" Hepburn told a pep meeting of Liberal Party workers in British Columbia : "In the West the situation is so scrambled up that...
...play, her first success, Mrs. Carter let down her bright red hair and swung 229 times in Manhattan in 1895, 96 times in London in 1898. In Mrs. Carter's later plays, David Belasco always arranged a scene in which she could undo her hair. Hence the favorite remark of the 1890's: "Let's go to the new Belasco play and see Mrs. Carter let her hair down...
Last week at a party, when she made what she considered a bright remark, the person to whom she was speaking asked: "Who did you hear say that?" Jean Harlow paused bitterly before making another remark which was both brighter and indubitably her own: "My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important...