Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heinnecken, Quirino, Scaliger and John Stuart Mill, though the chief place must be accorded to the great Lipsius, of whom we are told that he composed a work the day he was born, concerning which there is the immortal remark of my Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.* There are many instances of pious precocity- such as that of the unhappy little puritan girl who (so Cotton Mather in his Magnolia tells us, and with evident approval) spent eight hours a day in a dark closet weeping and praying for the forgiveness of her sins...
...which leads me to remark that in my four years of subscription to TIME, I have noted again and again that you insist on interpreting news. My judgment is that your subscribers belong to a class of fairly intelligent people, as competent to interpret facts as you. Personally, I wish you might stay what you claimed to be when I first received your advertising matter: a newsmagazine.∙ I should prefer that you omit the colorings of your own prejudices...
...Einstein said that he believed that every man of fighting age should refuse to fight and the dangerous and destructive heresy of such a remark has lead the Los Angeles Legionaires to rise in defense of the peace of their Californian domain by keeping the father of such ideas beyond their borders. An attitude of militant protection would seem to be the only way these professedly peace loving people can protect the sanctity of their homes from pacificism. It is unfortunate that instead of advocating pacificism Professor Einstein did not make a plea to keep the world safe for democracy...
...them have popularized the one-line joke (e. g.-a man driving a car pulls up beside a huge truck half on its side in a ditch, inquires politely: ''Tip over?"). ''Peter Arno may not have been the first to make use of the overheard remark as a basis for a drawing, but he has made himself the High Priest of the school by now. ... To see one of Peter Arno's illustrations of a one-line observation made by a dowager in a theater lobby or a young man in a porch hammock...
Names, of course, are the only basis of evaluation. The usual type of remark is something like the following: "A name like that would stand for something anywhere"; "His family is conservative of the conservatives"; "Mother belongs to the Chilton Club"; "The apple of the family eye--a son among four daughters"; "Smart in 1930; prominent in 1865"; and "If he were a girl he would be presented at the Bachelors' Cotillon in Baltimore...