Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the only downright disparaging remark England's Queen-Empress Mary is known to have uttered was her icy observation, four years ago, that the Queen of a certain Balkan state, who was then touring the U. S., ought to go to Hollywood and remain there. Queen Marie is Queen Mary's husband's second cousin...
...hush fell over the chamber when Illinois' Representative Charles Adkins, onetime State Director of Agriculture under Governor Frank Orren Lowden, rose to remark: "If there was any proposition up which would enable the farmer to stick his hands down into Uncle Sam's rockets, I'd be for it. But I don't see that opportunity in voting 'for this debenture plan." Neither did a House majority which voted (231-to-161) to strike the proposal from the bill...
...Philadelphia last week, Cameron Beck, personnel director of the New York Stock Exchange, told Rotarians about leadership. During his speech he quoted a remark that soon the U. S. will face a shortage of 125,000 properly trained executives. Since then, Mr. Beck has been deluged with letters from unemployed gentlemen seeking to discover who needs a good executive...
Have the Christians Accepted Him?" Strongly Dr. Ainslie deplored War, deplored the fact that the Church should play any part in it, chose the circumstances of the World War to point his utterances. Suddenly Chief Chaplain Yates was astounded to hear Dr. Ainslie remark: "There is no more justification for being a chaplain in the Army or Navy than there is for being a chaplain in a speakeasy...
There is on record only one unfavorable remark by "Popsy" Welch about another human being. Years ago he was told of a highly disparaging remark made about his colleague Dr. Osler by a Continental scientist. A few years later Dr. Welch was asked to express an opinion about the detractor. For a long time he hesitated, then mumbled in a hesitating voice that he must be "a terrible person...