Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commented Joe Davies on this remark: "We agreed in the Kremlin that this is one of the most momentous statements of all time...
...Bloody Inhuman. A hackneyed remark about Sir Arthur Travers Harris is that he has "a gentle face and a furious tongue." At home with handsome Lady Harris (his second wife, whom he married in 1938) and their four-year-old daughter Jackie, he can indeed be gentle. But men who serve with him learn sooner or later that his gentle face is a sort of booby trap, luring the unwary to the lash of his tongue...
Between the words of the skipper and the side remark of that young ensign, gentlemen, I suppose we have some sort of a keynote of what we're in for. Class number One of midshipmen has set quite a record for us. In spite of the lounging we've seen them doing (and not much else that we've seen) they must have really scooted around this place night and day to make the grade (first third of it, anyway) and what we heard and saw on Tuesday is really a goal to set for this class... providing "a case...
...night last week Carroll Alcott closed his newscast with the remark: "And now you can listen to Gregor Ziemer, the commentator who looks at the world through a spyglass and the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...dream nearly succeeded. Industry by industry, the workers moved into industrial unions. Steel, automobiles, rubber fell into his lap. Then, in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt, who received $600,000 from Lewis for his 1936 campaign, denounced the division in labor with his remark: "A plague on both your houses...