Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasing coincidence of interests, Senator Thomas is reported to have expressed a feeling that there is no reason why silver should be less an object of speculation than wheat or gold. This is a very beautiful thought, indeed, but it is to be hoped that the Senator's remark was torn ruthlessly from its proper context. As it stands, it is a rather pitiful revelation -- of the Senator...
...week they issued a 10,000-word statement, going all over the same ground and concluding: "After his interview with Judge Lescouvé, Judge Prince said to Max Buteau: 'Between Pressard and me, there is hatred to the death.' How is it possible not to place this remark in juxtaposition with Judge Lescouvé's declaration before the Parliamentary commission." Never until Stavisky was a breath of scandal attached to the long, unexciting career of Georges Pressard as a criminal lawyer and provincial judge. Called before the investigating commission last week he maintained stoutly that he never...
...maintaining peace in the Far East, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that they mean not merely peace with honor, but also peace with profit. They are taking up the well-known and slightly nauseating White Man's Burden, much to its surprise, possibly to its displeasure. The remark that Japan will oppose any Chinese effort to enlist foreign support for resistance to Japanese encroachment is, in its own way, magnificent. The unknown author of that statement is Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's most dangerous rival...
...third day of fasting he overheard a woman from the U. S. remark to her companion: ''He ought to starve...
Three or four times, during the course of his short address Bates made what were taken by the audience to be indirect references to the Norfolk investigation. Upon one occasion he remarked that, "Penologists are handicapped, at every turn, by the fickleness of public opinion, and by what seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert...