Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire characters each fit to be popped straight into Gilbert & Sullivan. One was the Lord Chief Justice of England, tiny, rolypoly Baron Hewart. The other was the Lord High Chancellor, tall, severe, ascetic Viscount Sankey. Distinctly Gilbertian. with exactly the right lilt, is Lord Sankey's famed remark: "My first brief fetched two guineas-but afterward, roses, roses all the way!" Not since Sullivan set tunes to Trial by Jury has Justice provided a more diverting tale than that told on himself by Lord Sankey: ''When I became Lord High Chancellor and went to the office...
...partnerships in Philadelphia's Drexel & Co., Paris' Drexel, Harjes & Co., to live in London. Amid $5,000.000 worth of art in his famed Grosvenor Square house he played host to Edward VII & court until 1915, when he moved to Paris following a divorce from Margarita Armstrong. Credited with the remark that the U. S. was "a hole not fit for a gentleman to live in," he stayed away from it until...
...paralytic stroke; at Fort Worth, Tex. He got his start in 1872 when two successive deals in cattle left him with enough money to buy 600,000 acres of land in northern Texas. In 1902 when he found oil on his land he ignored it with the remark: "Damn the oil. I need water for my cattle." Eight years later he uncovered the great North Texas oil field. With a fortune estimated at $100,000,000 he amused himself in later years by building the $3,000,000 Arlington Downs race track, breeding horses, erecting Texas skyscrapers...
...take little or no interest in military affairs. I never went into the army without regret and I never retired without pleasure." Thus, to a shocked German Crown Prince, spoke the great General Grant, full fed on victories and honors. Biographer McCormick quotes his hero's unheroic remark with Yankee pride, proceeds to argue that Grant was the greatest soldier of them all. Grant's military genius, thinks the publisher of the Chicago Tribune, has never had its due; his reputation has been unjustly overshadowed by the flashier fame of soldiers he defeated-or could have. Says...
...accustomed to giving all his students the same low grade, never checked their attendance, seldom set examinations. He discouraged ingenuous questions with: "I don't know, I'm not bothered that way." When his second wife enthusiastically embroiled herself in discussions on Socialism with other faculty wives, Veblen would remark that either side could find enough books in the library to prove its case. In his house the beds were never made, simply turned down; dishes were washed only when the whole supply was dirty. In later life Veblen became an addict of detective stories, but was so ashamed...