Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had been more than impatience with a worn-out phrase in the President's remark last week. Republicans thought they had the answer: the white lamb of 1932 had become the black sheep in the 1944 fold...
...They riotously hooted her on her way into the House of Commons. There, when she interrupted a debate, Laborite Emanuel Shinwell shouted: "Throw her out!" A Conservative Member complained that the Tories had had to "put up with" Nancy Astor for 20 years. When she applauded another remark with the usual British "Hear, hear," a Laborite cried: "Some of us would like to try." His colleagues cheered his rude suggestion that Nancy, Lady Astor, the Provincial Lady of two nations, should subside, permanently...
...Remark of the week: "Holiday always looks like he was running against a high wind". . . We're committed to secrecy but we can tell you next issue just what well known Dog will crawl into the permanent kennel December 24. . . double if he waits up for Santa...
...Churchill's oblique remark was welcomed in the U.S. with glee and resentment, depending on where the shoe pinched. It also served to emphasize one vast difference and one great interdependence of U.S. and British politics...
...never thought that people came so low but we heard that some of the officers' memo changes were stolen. And while we are on the subject of publications there is the remark made in class the other day by an exasperated, yet facetious student to the effect: "That item in the Manual doesn't make sense and I think it should be crossed out." On that basis, many items in many publications would fall by the wayside...