Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dinner party in Taranto. Speaking of the recent trial of General Mario Roatta (TIME, March 12), the Duke said that all the judges should have been shot. Seated at the table was Sylvia Sprigge, veteran Rome correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. She was shocked by the Duke's remark. Later, at one of Rome's endless round of parties, she said...
...visiting lecturer had chanced to overhear this remark at Mooseheart, Ill., site of a Loyal Order of Moose home & school for some 1,000 orphans, he would either be mystified or mortified. Translated from recorded Mooseheart slang, the remark means: "The visiting lecturer is a very queer person. The girls are gossiping about...
Christ Church students, to whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson lectured for 40 years, knew him only as a gawky, dull professor who could not utter the letter "p" and who left the room if he overheard a single indecent or irreverent remark. But visitors to his rooms were bowled over by what they found. Rugs and coats were stuffed against cracks in the door (Dodgson had a horror of draughts). Instructions for lighting an amazingly complicated gas lamp were pasted to the door-though no one was ever allowed to light the lamp...
Dick insists that it has possibilities but Marv Fauria, (perhaps with a tinge of jealousy), was heard to remark that such a cadence was intended to keep only the lame, the limping and the halt in step. Perhaps time or merely some passing Lieutenant-Commander will decide its usefulness for once...
...love of Bill Shuey of the stoned fame, and his crushing roommate H. P. Mitchell, late of UCLA. Recent cowardly attacks upon our sovereign state by H. B. Wood under the watchful eye of a prominent naval officer--better known as "the protector"--have caused us here to remark that the Golden State waits only for Florida to secede to join the Union...