Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Novosibirsk last week came the usual bloody item of Soviet grain news, an item so commonplace as to excite no Russian remark. Because the collective farm "Red Front" raised only 40% of its State-scheduled grain quota, the Western Siberian Circuit Court sentenced four of the collective's officials to be shot...
...your issue of Nov. 12. under the heading "Dead Flower," you quote a remark of mine to the effect that TVA is "the only genuinely socialistic project in the New Deal-a beautiful flower in a garden of weeds." I should guess that you have taken your quotation from the front cover of a widely circulated pamphlet by the National Coal Association and that both of you think, as you certainly suggest to your readers, that the "weeds" to which I referred were other provisions of the New Deal, in legislation and administration...
...Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete was the rout of Senate Republicans that Boss Farley could well remark on Election Night: "Famous Republican figures have been toppled into oblivion. In fact, we must wonder who they have left that the country ever heard...
...Greene, his Republican opponent, declared on the stump that it was cruel of the Democratic organization to force a crippled man to continue the campaign. Last week political quidnuncs estimated that, although Mr. Greene had not been as inept as Mr. Gay, he, too, had lost votes by his remark...
Playing baccarat at the big table in Deauville in 1929, the flashy little Jew whom everyone calls the Ford of France tossed a 10,000 franc (then $400) chip over his shoulder with the contemptuous remark "Be so kind, Madame, as to take this and stop breathing down the back of my neck...