Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midle-aged Brookline man, however, who-contributed the most philosophical remark. "I'd just as soon get pushed, " he said, "against a Harvard man as any other...
...shall not attempt in a letter to discuss many aspects of the problem. I wish only to remark upon two points...
Lord Keynes, British money expert, arriving in the U.S. for a meeting of Bretton Woods wizards, was asked by newsmen to comment on a Londoner's remark that the U.S. loan would make England "an illegitimate 49th state of the Union." Smiled Keynes: "No such luck...
Government documents, said the Etonian editors, are rank with verbiage, due to "a popular misconception that to use long words is a sign of an expensive education. . . . We prefer a homely remark such as 'You've got some cheek, Bert' to 'Herbert, you are suffering from an inverted inferiority complex...
...They also felt somehow "that Friend Birdwell wasn't standing as squarely in the light as he'd done at one time." So one night the Ministry and Oversight Committee paid the Birdwells a friendly call. "But before they could even ease into their questions with some remark upon the weather or how the corn was shaping up-Jess heard it-the faint kind of leathery sigh the organ made when the foot first touched the bellows." Jess knew that his daughter Mattie was settling down to a musical session in the attic. Just as she launched into...