Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flock to Grandma Moses' upper New York State farm at Eagle Bridge (there were 500 of them last summer) might seem a chore to someone else, but Grandma loves having them. She also enjoys showing off the snapshots they sometimes leave with her. "Now this," she will remark, "was a very nice family from Ohio . . . This poor girl lost her kitty just before she came .. . This was a woman all the way from Australia. She brought me a kangaroo skin and a hula skirt...
Great Gate. The day of the funeral, it rained. With admirable restraint, nobody wrote that "Even the skies wept for the Babe"-except the New York Times's Sport Columnist Arthur Daley, who passed off the remark on a defenseless taxi driver. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at a Requiem Mass (attended by 6,000), with Governor Dewey, New York's Mayor O'Dwyer and Boston's Mayor Curley as pallbearers. The press reported that 75,000 people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday...
...Duchess of Windsor, resplendent in blue at the fair's opening, was heard to remark that she found Picasso's new things "beautiful, but I wonder what use one could make of them." Whatever their possible use, Picasso had obviously enjoyed making them. When night fell on the fair's opening day, Picasso turned smiling to an assistant in his factory workroom and said, "You know, Jules, I am happy here. I think I'll never leave...
That was language that the men in the Kremlin might understand. Less understandable was the bland remark of President Harry Truman. The prospects for peace, said the President, were not only good, they were excellent...
Luxemburg's plump, commonsensical Premier Pierre Dupong made a sensible remark about the Berlin crisis last week. Said he: "I don't want to find out if the Russians are willing to go to war. I would like to know, but I don't want to find...