Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last June 10, at Charlottesville, Va., President Roosevelt slapped Benito Mussolini with his "Stab-in-the-Back" remark. Last week Franklin Roosevelt & Co. jolted Mussolini again. Mexican officials said they acted on a tip from the U. S. State Department when at a border station they pounced on the Italian Legation pouch en route from Washington to Mexico City and broke its seals in violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Italian courier...
...remark about the "literary and artistic sterility of Canada," that requires a bit of explaining. Having lived both in Canada and the U. S., I am inclined to think that Canada (that is, the English-speaking part of it) produces more authors and artists per thousand than the U. S. does. But most of them sell their work in the U. S. I am still more certain that Canadians do more reading per capita than do the people of the U. S. The long winter nights, perhaps. But they read mostly U. S. publications. And I, for one, cannot...
...Democratic candidate archly observed: "This is a funny campaign." The Republican candidate retorted grimly: "That is a flippant remark." Franklin Roosevelt's looks belied his words: he was grey-faced, his eyes tired, his voice frequently ragged. If either of the two candidates was having any fun, it was not Franklin Roosevelt but Wendell Willkie...
...across a remark the other day in the "Pro Musica" column of the Radcliffe News which seemed to me typical of a fairly widespread misconception about Mozart. The writer of "Pro Musica" discussed at some length the E-flat Symphony, and then went on to say: ". . . where a Mozart rises above his environment and ignores, a Berlioz would have sought to picture it in its most sordid details. It is a never-ending tribute, we feel, to the greatness of Mozart that he could continue composition of 'happy' music even when he himself was most 'unhappy.'" Such a statement...
...experts. Anyone who can explain this can become a millionaire overnight." Senator Vandenberg, who had had a succés with the phrase a few weeks before, repeated "I still think it is an imponderable mess." The President himself, in signing the bill, was this week expected to remark on its shortcomings...