Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Is Watching." The President said he had educated Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin on this point -the necessity of Congressional support -and he was sure they understood. He was certain, he said, that the whole world understood, and that the whole world is consequently watching. "The slightest remark in either House of Congress," he said, "is known all over the world the following day." And he added: "I think that Republicans want peace just as much as Democrats...
...official was heard to remark: "She gets less things done wrong than anyone I ever ran into." One of the things she got done was a boost in salaries, which endeared her to the faculty. She settled firmly into the president's chair, surveying the academic world with snapping brown eyes and an air of self-sufficiency...
...hour wait for seats, please." When Lauren oozes out "I'm hard to get, Steve--all you have to do is ask me," or "Whistle when you want me; I'll be across the hall," the stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...
...such side stories as the conference at Malta, and the news that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn went along. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since . . . he scooped the world on the smash yarn that President Harding was dead...
...Smoothed. The Italian Cabinet allowed that it would accept as an apology an explanation that: 1) Prime Minister Winston Churchill had not been fully quoted when he made the condescending remark in his recent speech to the House of Commons that "we need Italy no more than we need Spain"; 2) he was merely answering the suggestion that Britain was embarking on a system of power politics in the Mediterranean...