Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters received criticizing his article. The letter concluded, "Boston, we agree, is the Hub of the Universe. Everything else is in motion." The editor appended, "And one might add, going around in circles." Of course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which a map of the world appears according to a Bostonian. Of course, it is a map of Boston...
...stamina to fulfill their platform pledges and make the promised 25% reduction in expenditures." Senators Long and Connally vowed that they would never support tax legislation which did not also raise surtaxes on larger incomes. Representative Snell, Republican leader in the House, took advantage of the confusion to remark: "The new Democratic motto is 'Soak the poor.' Last session it was 'Soak the rich.' Now they propose to load everything onto the small income taxpayer...
...best laugh lines in Of Thee I Sing concerned Calvin Coolidge. One was the remark of the secretary in the White House who picks up the telephone receiver and announces: 'The Coolidges don't live here any more...
Agent Esty likes to remark, "If you succeed you're a genius. If not, you're a fool." For 17 years he has been succeeding. He got his first job with Chicago's Motion Picture News, then sold space for Butterick Publishing Co.'s Home Sector. He worked with several agencies before he went with J. Walter Thompson in 1925. There he was a vice president, handled the Lux (soap) account. His specialty is psychology. To study abnormal minds he has built up one of the largest private libraries on the subject. His studies...
Violet Kemble Cooper bustles through the delicate, amusing fabric of the piece with great success. The Mad Hopes warrants a visit if only to hear her gravely remark over a telephone: "Shakespeare? -yes-yes-very talented...