Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eamon de Valera is the outstanding Irishman of the present generation." he shouted. "He is the only man likely to restore the lost confidence of the people." When the laughter caused by this remark had died down, members of the Dail promptly defeated Absentee de Valera, 93 to 54, as promptly defeated another candidate, Thomas J. O'Connell, Laborite. Then they put shock-headed "Willie" Cosgrave back into power with a vote...
When Mr. Hoover as President-Elect was feted in Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 24. 1928), he roused tremendous popular enthusiasm by calling Argentina "the world's bread basket," a remark which Argentines misunderstood to mean that Mr. Hoover favored the introduction of bread made from Argentine flour into U. S. bread baskets...
...obtaining on A.B. or an S. B. at Harvard. However, it may not be superfluous to indicate that students concentrating in Modern Languages, whose deficiencies in Latin or Greek excluded them from an A.B., consider the existing arrangement an absurdity. A professor at this college once made the remark that a graduate of Harvard who holds an S. B. has been either a student of Science or one who has "small Latin and less Greek." The assertion is not only true; it can also be expanded. Whatever grades a student of Modern Languages may have, he can not compete...
...Hero (awed): "I would not have expected a remark like that from...
...room below the stage and just before I was supposed to go on I was covered with a shower of dust from above so that you couldn't tell whether I was very badly tanned from my ride in the barge or just plain Topsy." Her final remark was in Italian, or perhaps it was Spanish. But she said it in such a disarming tone of voice that, whatever the meaning might have been, didn't matter...