Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seniors were returning from calisthenics one morning, one junior was heard to say to another: "When we are seniors, I hope we are in that good shape." Ever since then we have been a little uncertain as to just how the remark should have been interpreted. Supposedly the remark was guileless, but then, we have a suspicion that most of the juniors are not as innocent as they look -- they couldn't be! So we shall have to go on the assumption that the remark was meant to be a compliment...
...midst of another talented double-talker in the person of Sidney Resnik, who served beautifully as a stooge for the fog-horn-voiced Benjamin. The dialogue between A.A. (Rita) Addington and O.K. (Olivia) Bovard brought down the house and Lt. (jg) T.W. (Bide Crab) Bradley with it. That last remark involving the distribution of naval responsibility and its various ramifications was unanimously elected as the climax crack of the evening...
...last four days all of us connected with the publication have had the experience of people calling us over, opening the magazine and pointing to some story with the remark: 'I just can't get over the fact that we are reading current news!' As one Navy enlisted man said to me, 'Brother, this is something...
...little late, I've just struck your story on Norman Rockwell (TiME, June 21), and I'm puzzled by the remark, "it is questionable whether any of his work could be seriously described...
Here, too, he sits up at long sessions of poker. His favorite remark, when newcomers from the U.S. come to his house for dinner: "Well, boys, here's a couple of new suckers. Let's take their money away from them." In the session that follows, he usually does...