Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event, originally scheduled for two weeks ago, had been delayed several times, a fact which led Professor Hooton to remark, "It seems that these movie people are about as conscientious in keeping their college appointments as they are in keeping their wives...
This is especially so now, since Haines often dropped the remark that an oarsman's best year is his second. This fact is causing a lot of sweat to stain the bottoms of Harvard's shells, since most of the men working out with the coach now are novices. Thus in two years these men will reach their peaks, and the competition for the American shell entry in the Olympics will be underway...
Even people in Boston-even Lowells and Cabots-admit the existence of sex. Said Mrs. Hugh Cabot Jr. last week: "I've been interested for a long, long time in this whole subject." Mrs. Cabot's interesting remark was heard by listeners to station WEEI. She and Dr. W. Linwood Chase, director of the Massachusetts Society for Social Hygiene, thereupon went on to discuss sex education for children...
...might be well to remark at once, just to take the sour taste out of your mouth, that the Nose is as potent as ever. This time he divides his time about 50-50 between his traditional routine (breaking pianos, listening for that high note, singing in patter) and some more than usually straight performing. It is worth more than the price of admission anywhere except on Broadway to watch his newest (or have we just missed it?) trick, one which is impossible to describe but which will send you into fits for two or three five-minute periods during...
...George came in from Verdella Tuesday evening. He was drunk as a lord and weaving about in the east part of town in his truck. . . . On his arrival [at the jail] he greeted Sheriff Bassett with the remark, 'I'm one drunk son of a bitch.' And there wasn't any doubt about the veracity of the first three words of this statement...