Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student interested in literature, the meetings of these courses are hardly instructive. There is translation, translation, and translation. Occasionally an important remark is made by the instructor, which could be found in almost any standard history of the literature. The student not concentrating in German, who has taken German 2 for distribution, may dimly recall years later that Goethe wrote masterpieces, that Schiller was sentimental, and that Minna von Barnhelm is the best comedy in German literature, though he may have forgotten his instructor's reasons for these statements...
...Patricia Collinge shyly impersonates the kindergarten teacher. From the highly successful London production comes curly-headed Francis Lederer to act the innkeeper. He is a Czech. The friendly sound of South German English slips pleasantly from his lips. As she left the premiere, Cinemactress Constance Bennett was heard to remark: "Is he divine, is he divine or is he divine...
...pessimistic," was the Chancellor's next remark. "There are signs in many quarters of recovery...
...rugby football was spoiled when the so-styled 'father of American college football' attempted to 'Americanize' the game, and that it has degenerated ever since through constant 'doctoring' of the rules from year to year until only the football experts really know what is actually going on--his final remark being: "I don't like the American game of football--it's too much like a circus...
...apparently trying to keep a charging regiment of cuirassiers (copied from Meissonier's Friedland) from trampling the entire assemblage underfoot. Three years ago the picture was unveiled in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles by the mother of Theatre Owner Sid Grauman with the remark, "It is the work of genius...