Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Munn, who "is full of enthusiasm and is not hampered too much by rules and regulations. Almost more than any other man on the faculty, he takes into account what the student thinks of the subject." A rival course, English 79, is labeled "caution," with the additional remark that "Professor Rollins discusses poetry during the first half-year. Since he does not seem to enjoy the course, his lectures suffer correspondingly...
Wisecracking wearily along from Tokyo toward Moscow last week. Newsclown Will Rogers paused at Hsinking. the capital of Manchukuo's puppet Emperor to remark:*"This country is so mad at Russia they've broken off the diplomatic relations that never existed...
...remark that "The Pacific Coast is still generations closer to frontier days than any other part of the country," and "Labor, too, has still something of the devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber camps...
...This damned thing has gone nuts!" One day last week that remark was radioed down to Earth from a crippled balloon high in the stratosphere. It represented the supreme frustration of three army officers marooned in a purple-black sky at 60,000 ft. Their rubberized gasbag, biggest ever, yawned with an enormous...
...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...