Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barnaby's racquetmen played remark able ball in taming the Tiger on his own stamping ground. Although number one man Gene Nickerson dropped his match to Charlie Brinton, his opponent is the winner of the recent Invitation Intercollegiate Championship and ranks as one of the best amateur players...
Last week the President also: > Declared that he had been too busy celebrating his birthday to read Hitler's speech (see p. 21). To a reporter's remark that the speech had been meant as a birth day present, Mr. Roosevelt quipped that he had not opened all his presents...
...middle of her fourth decade in the theatre, Gertrude Lawrence still speaks of "just beginning to make a go of it." The remark does much to explain her determined, year-by-year climb to preeminence in one branch of the entertainment business after another. It is really quite foolish to speak of her as "a substitute" for the Life Force. Of that Force, she has at least eight or ten women's share...
...something nearer their own size and understanding. They were doing quite nicely when along came Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, by whom, says Knollenberg testily, "their work has been largely undone." So exasperated does Historian Knollenberg become in undoing this undoing that he accuses Historian Fitzpatrick of taking literally a remark of Washington Irving's: "There is a certain meddlesome spirit which, in the garb of learned research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its monuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Care should be taken to vindicate great names from such pernicious erudition...
Inspector Pennington named no names, did not say any arrests had been made. He contented himself with a policemanly remark that the plot had been "nipped in the bud." The G-Man's story fell with a dull thud. Mr. Dies zoomed on to more lectures, bigger raids...