Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about their hobby. What with the heat and bad flying weather, they admit, many a pigeon just hasn't the guts to stay the distance. Others meet French lady friends on the way home and decide to give up racing. What burned the pigeon people was the callous remark made by London's Columnist Paul Holt. "Well," he asked, "would you come home...
Rumor credited the appearance of the quotation to a long range Yale publicity coup, which was climaxed by under-rating the Bulldogs for the Thames regatta two weeks ago. Bolles had made some such remark, the rumor ran, at a coaches' meeting prior to the Princeton race and Yale's mentor, Allen Walz, carried it to the sports writers without Bolles being aware of the deed...
...Often one member of the group says, 'Why, sure, we're going to have to fight the Russians. . . .' When we try to pin down such an opinion, we rarely get satisfaction. As often as not, what we get is a knowing look and a brush-off remark." Actually, said Talk No. 55, Communist ideals "are directly opposite to the stated ideals of fascist dictatorship, and their hope is to drop the appurtenances of dictatorship in the process of democratic evolution...
...your "critic's" remark about my books appealing to only the "stunted" in intelligence, he insults the vast body of American book-buyers and readers who, by the evidence of their letters to me, have bought and read my books. Your "critic," too, will amuse and please only the few of my personal enemies who resent my "success," and envy me, as does this gentle gentleman...
...historic mansion. Only twice did I make a cruise on the Presidential yacht. . . . Never was I asked to join intimate White House gatherings. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt once said: 'Franklin finds it hard to relax with people that aren't his social equals.' I took this remark to explain my being out of the infield...