Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of them remembered the remark of canny Clark Griffith, baseball's Old Fox: "Trying to choose between Cobb and Ruth is like trying to choose between two $20 gold pieces...
...remark about the empyreumatical mackerel (TIME, May 26), Mr. Fly was on the right scent, but he failed to tell us anything about his authority for the quotation. Crabbed, although highly interesting, John Randolph of Roanoke shot it at Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact language seems to be in dispute. Bartlett puts it: "So brilliant, yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Personally one better likes the version employed in the life of Randolph, in The American Statesmen series of biographies: "Like a mackerel in the moonlight, he shined...
...military mentality was still in charge at G.H.Q. and that it had been getting a romantic gilding from the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Military Historian Liddell Hart, whose theories of defensive warfare were blasted by Adolf Hitler's Blitzkrieg tactics, broke his recent silence long enough to remark that the British people's hearts of oak were being betrayed by their leaders' oaken heads...
Commissioner Yoshizawa met this faceslap with the faint remark that it was "disappointing." By week's end the toughest statement he had permitted himself was: "We can agree on some points, but it is my impression that agreement will be very difficult on others." And he had plaintively telephoned Tokyo that The Netherlands East Indies might have shown "greater sincerity." It seemed that the stroke of noon had been Minister van Mook...
...defense contract is a headache contract, and big corporations take them only "in recognition of a responsibility." Author of this remark: Paul Garrett, vice president of General Motors, now busy with over $750,000,000 in armament orders...