Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faced with an unruly party caucus, Speaker Longworth was apt to rock back on his patrician heels and remark with ominous mildness: "Some of you won't be back here next year, and the roll call is going to show who some of them are." In a similar case, a small slit would open in Speaker Garner's cherry-red face and he would say: "There's no use fooling yourselves, boys. The old man's got four aces showing already. You can't possibly call." To face such a situation the best that Speaker...
...Missouri (home of Listerine), Bailey of North Carolina (home of Vicks) and Tydings of Maryland (home of Bromo Seltzer), were naturally interested in his bill, but the majority practically drowned out the speaker with loud private conversations. Finally Senator Borah, who is a stickler for Senate etiquette, uprose to remark to the presiding officer...
...salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub." But he quotes sympathetically a remark of Butler's (who, as commander of the Northern troops in New Orleans, was the mosthated man in that city), when Southern ladies pointedly turned their backs on him: "These ladies evidently know which end of them looks best...
...Such was the tension of the times that a perfunctory, offhand remark of the President to the effect that commodity prices were not yet high enough sent reporters running to telegraph wires, sent Inflation headlines into the streets, sent stock-markets soaring for one hour last week...
...Europe's upstarts neatly in their places are the unruffled, uninsultable civil servants of the British Foreign Office. They knew exactly how to cure Herr Hitler's cold, and it never occurred to them to return crude blow for blow. In the House of Commons a quiet remark by Sir John Simon that Hitler was "suffering from the cold he caught in the Saar," evoked hearty English mirth, painful when reported to inferiority-complexed Nazis. Next Sir John let it be known that Etonianly elegant Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden would pass Berlin by en route to confer...