Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonus agitation lay, as usual, a perfectly good Democrat, Representative Wright Patman of Texas. No. 1 Bonuseer, he was appointed to the sub-committee of nine which sweated to frame the convention's Bonus resolution. Meantime, their fellow-members, on record as resenting the President's remark that they were better off than "the average of any other great group of our citizens," held lavish carnival, with elaborate floats and trick uniforms of every hue, from noon until night along Biscayne Boulevard...
...parting shot, Mr. Curley contributed the remark that "although politics is one of the most worthwhile fields a young man can enter, in proportion to the energy and talent expended it is the most poorly paid...
Last February when the first crisis of the Stavisky case had Frenchmen rioting in the streets, Gaston Doumergue picked white-chinned old Henry Cheron for his Minister of Justice with the reputed remark, "He is a funny old bore, but at least he is absolutely honest...
...loud and clear manner the opinion that there is only one difference between the nature of study during the Freshman year at an American college and at a preparatory school, and that is that preparatory school students are better instructed. It is impossible of course, to swallow this remark whole, but the lesson of his exaggeration is none the less sound. That Harvard is no exception to the general rule is a fact which finds ample demonstration in the Deans' reports and in the annual emphasis placed upon the conferences between college and secondary school educators. The average Harvard undergraduate...
...edition of Shakespeare's Poems in the original calf binding; a 1577 edition of Hollinshed's Chronicles, opened to a woodcut of the meeting between Macbeth and Banquo and the three witches; and the first collected edition of Jonson's Discoveries with attention drawn to Johnson's famous remark that...