Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curricula of liberal arts colleges for Negroes may be laughed at with the old chestnut, "Is Yo Did Yo Greek Yit?", the equally antiquated studies of "classical'' colleges for whites in the South might lead one to overhear a remark of this sort: "Ain't you-all done that thar Latting...
Translation: "Perhaps you thought it clever to write such a remark, or perhaps not. However, it is only TIME'S opinion, and it is certain that TIME does not understand the aristocratic tongue of Erin...
...Hollis, one may discover, is not L'Opera, "Patience" is not Wagnerian, it is not the height of the season even in Boston; it is to display a most quibbling quiddity to remark that the twenty love-sick maidens of the Civic Light Opera Company are but sixteen, or that the choruses might conceivably be better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient...
...Schwab. Steelman Schwab had just said in London, ''Of course my business will be hurt by the Ottawa accords, but if the British Empire prospers as a result that will help us all," Cried Chancellor Chamberlain to the House of Commons, "There is true statesmanship in the remark of that man who is not a citizen of the British Empire! I wish all our citizens could take an equally far-sighted view...
...Chesterton; inaugurates an English Men of Letters Series by reprinting from the London Daily Mail an advertisement written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Excerpt: ''Every time a fairy sneezes, a new Lyons' Swiss Roll is born, and every time a fairy trips over a bluebell, his remark breaks into a million pieces. Some of them turn into Nippys. . . . The jam is very whimsy and is made of fruit which has been peeped at by rabbits very early in the morning...