Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet with the approval of those who have taken English 50b, read critical works in large doses, and found them exceedingly dull. In perusing the usual critical material, one invariably thinks of that adage to the effect that "those who can, write,--those who can't, criticize", a remark which does not seem to be based wholly on fiction...
...loves to tell: how as a boy of 18, living in the U. S. anc supporting his mother, he managed to save $320 in 18 months . . . how he walked into the White House one day and spoke to President Hayes, who took him for a despatch boy . . . his remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that old mug." In Newport he has kept much to himself on his yacht Erin. Last week...
...Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio was chosen to head the national committee. As not prearranged this was done on a permanent basis, for Mr. Fess refused to take the job temporarily. Ousted Mr. Huston was reported as saying at once: "Enter the Ohio Gang again." If uttered, this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member of the Harding-Daugherty-Jesse Smith inner circle, though party and State loyalty required him to flay the Ohio Gang's critics in his maiden Senate speech. Postmaster...
...from feeling personally abused, the Levands last week were making fine capital of Mr. Legge's remark. They printed all dispatches mentioning their part in the controversy. They said that Chairman Legge had "told Kansas to go to hell." Their seven-column headlines shrieked: CONGRESSIONAL PROBE OF LEGGE IS DEMANDED. The story explained that the Brothers Levand were the demanders, that they had telegraphed Sen- ator Capper of Kansas to get busy...
...French foreign office a significant remark was heard. "Mais out, they are parading His Royal Highness through Europe to prove to the various govern ments and peoples that he is really fit to succeed his father on the Spanish throne...