Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street, paced up & down the block, cracking his knuckles in anger. To reporters, whom he has distrusted ever since he was TVA's general counsel, he roared: "Leave me alone!" Next day he issued a sharp statement in reply. He said the N.A.B. management was like a remark by John Randolph of Virginia: "It reminds me of a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it both shines and stinks...
Comedian Wynn followed with 15 minutes of foolish talk. The damper audience began heckling him, got better and louder at it. Comedian Wynn got mad, made the wrong remark: "Some of you fellows think you are funnier than I am, so you tell the jokes and I'll do the laughing." He escaped the ultimate bird only by giving the audience what it wanted-Tap Dancer Betty Bruce, brunette Singer Jane Froman, acrobats, eight chorines from Comedian Wynn's Boys and Girls Together. After that, the audience laughed at Comedian Wynn's foolery...
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox is contrarily full of vigor; but ice-cold appraisers praise only his muscles. When he makes some such remark as "The U.S. will outproduce Hitler in 90 days" his whole Department groans; last week one Navy airman fell back on flying jargon to grumble: "The Old Man is shooting the breeze again...
...caught during the 1912 uprising in Yemen, made him deafer, but that deafness has often been, and is today, his greatest asset as a statesman. He hears what he wants to hear. After failing to hear something he does not want to hear he has been known to remark: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." If he is not in perfect health otherwise, there is no sign of it in his daily routine...
...never knew about people who have to work for a living. A pompous section manager (Edmund Gwenn) rules him with acidulous tyranny. A comely young clerk, Mary Jones (Jean Arthur), tries to teach him the tricks of the trade, lends him 50? when she interprets his remark about never eating lunch to mean that he is broke...