Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means is hard-pressed. But the effect of this factor is on the whole neutralized by the difficulty of obtaining permanent employment. In the old days it frequently happened that periods of depression led, despite expectations to the contrary, to increased enrollment, and the cynically-minded were went to remark that going to college was itself after all, only a form of unemployment. It would now be expressed otherwise, to the effect, namely, that going to college is deemed the most profitable form of unremunerative employment. It is a way of improving the plant against the time when...
...poetry is not discuses even to such a hopeless romantic as the Vagabond. There is much that is good, and more that is interesting in this period. But to those souls who find the triumph of American Literature in this post war age lot the Vagabond remark with one of the late Victorians, "Fare well Romance, and all unseen, Romance brought...
...necessary to capitalize the last word at every turn like your anonymous correspondent, the inference being that his religion is true and holy, and all the others the sheerest bunk and rubbish. My doxy is all right, and your doxy is a bad 'un, as Carlyle was wont to remark...
...remark of H. R. H. last week, knowing U. S. oystermen smiled. Said...
Though it is the fourth play to bombard the cinema, Wonder Boy manages to do it with new weapons. The story of the would-be dentist cajoled into brief stardom is Hollywood legend. So is Phil Mashkin's remark: "In two words, im-possible." Well acted, cleverly directed, Wonder Boy is a live & funny play...