Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such are the inducements to mirth: at a dinner party an unskillfully inebriated gentleman spys some hors d'oevres in the form of anchovies and exclaims expectantly, "Ah, oysters. My favorite fruit." On an equally high level was another very popular remark; the wife, in reply to the husband's complaint that her uncle owes him fifteen dollars remarks that the debt has probably slipped the avuncular mind. To which her spouse nearly rejoins. "If probably has. And how" so much for the play's good points...
...truth. In the admission of Bethmann Hollweg that the German invasion of Belgium was a "breach of international law" Bulow finds a stunning tactical error. This may be true, but the Prince goes on to say that Bethmann should have had the political foresight to deny categorically the remark after it had been made. This also, from the point of view of the professional diplomat may be true, but to base a defamation of character upon this premise is inexcusable. The harm done Germany is infinitely greater by Bulow's memoirs than by Bethmann's statement. One was the honest...
That is a minor point. Perhaps, it is closer to the truth of the mental sterility of twenty-year olds to remark that the contributor has reversed his cause and effect. President Lowell not long ago remarked that, in his opinion, based on some seventy years of observation, young men were the conservatives and old men the radicals. There may yet be hope for the present generation...
During the hearing, smart Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, stanch Tammany man who always wears an orchid in his buttonhole, objected to the admission of privately secured testimony, accused Referee Seabury of "prejudging the case." Tall, patrician Inquisitor Seabury flushed and said quietly: "I consider that remark grossly impertinent...
...sister Mrs. Paul Hippolitus, posed with British royalty on the liner Oropesa which carried T. R. H. to South America (TIME, Jan. 26, et seq.) "I joked the Prince of Wales about Britain having to resort to the dole system," said Mr. Cella, "and he came back with this remark...