Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When interviewers lately sought out Mrs. Charles E. Williams in her modest apartment over a backyard garage in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., her first remark about her son, Assistant Federal Relief Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams, was: "He's a self-made...
...query on the Rex "But isn't Australia terribly raw?" plump, vivacious Mrs. Lyons answered, "Yes, the salads!", her favorite repartee whenever Australia's rawness comes up. Another favorite remark of hers: "You must have happiness in married life. The mother should be like a beloved Queen." Burly, curly Joe Lyons when he saw Queen Mary several weeks ago for the first time in his life exclaimed involuntarily: "Magnificent! Magnificent...
...have all thought, afterwards, of the cruelly perceptive remark we might have made, if we had just been a little quicker. How it would have pierced and hurt, how it would have silenced some parish pest! Unfortunately, there have been times when the poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...
...belittle Norman-die's records, served up again a rumor millions of Germans have been taught to believe, namely, that their Bremen and Europa possess "speed in reserve" sufficient to win back the Atlantic's blue ribbon. Almost treasonable therefore in Nazi eyes was an unexpected remark in Manhattan by blunt Commodore Leopold Ziegenbein of the Bremen. "I am sure," said he last week, "that neither my ship nor the Europa will attempt to better the records set by the Normandie...
...most mysterious corporation in a mysterious industry was about to be thoroughly aired (TIME, May 27). But last week when the application was formally filed, SEC was surprised to find no schedule of the company's $39,000,000 marketable securities. Salaries were submitted confidentially with the remark that none was more than $100,000 per year. Financial statements, almost as sketchy as ever, were footnoted: "Omitted data is being submitted to chairman of commission under confidential cover." Largest stockholdings of any official were 1,984 shares owned by Director Harold Otis. One director owned one share, two directors...