Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find now. I don't know whether the die-hards would have me blame this on the talkies too, but whatever it was, it has carried off one of the most amusing sides of stage life. They did take themselves so seriously," and here Miss MacKenzie illuminated her remark with a grimace that was serious to beyond the hopes of the most accomplished of the gentlemen in waiting...
...Lady Anne, widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, whose blood is scarcely dry on his sword, Gloster presents his suit with all of the cunning of a snake charming its prospective prey. The lady assents, and as she departs Mr. Leiber gives a very emphatic sneer and a disparaging remark on the constancy of women. All through the play he uses men as his tools and then throws them aside with no compunction. There is no excitement about it; they have done their part, are no longer useful and are dismissed with nothing more for their pains than a bitter...
When the naval conference first came into being, the opinion was generally prevalent that disarmament would take place. It was wildly suggested that war might even be abolished altogether. In the midst of the journalistic paean of praise that followed, Bernard Shaw was heard to remark that the only thing that the conference would determine would be whether the next war would be fought with twelve or eighteen inch guns. Perhaps the great dramatist had seen too many post-war scraps of paper scattered before the wind of national feeling and industrial competition...
...remark in your article on "First Fencer" that Nadi's use of the "advance thrust" is an offensive few dare attempt. The movement may seem daring to Americans who mainly follow the French School, but it is not unusual...
...play second fiddle to his first, both at the second Hague Conference and at London (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). Briand, perhaps the greatest statesman and certainly the master politician of his time in France, would have been less than human had he not done something to stop the remark, often heard in Paris fortnight ago: "Tardieu has obliterated Briand...