Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken to sum up their societies-out of the top drawer of British nobility. A huntin', shootin', fishin' county gentleman, he is not unlike Cartoonist David Low's ultra-ultra-conservative Colonel Blimp. When he left London for his new post, his most edifying remark was to some fellow members of the Marlborough Club: he said he would "try not to let the Club down...
Next a Baltimore delegate, Edward J. Colgan Jr., nominated Millard Tydings interminably, pausing at last to remark doggedly "... I have given you but a partial picture . . ." to a cacophony of heartfelt boos. For Tydings there was but one feeble cheer. Wright Moody, a ponderous grey-haired Texan, nominated John Nance Garner monotonously for what seemed like hours to the sleepy, hot delegates. More boos...
...terrible burden of the Presidency in these times. On the floor Henry Wallace had no more than 50 personal votes. But candidate after candidate withdrew. One of them, tall ioo%er Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, purged himself all the way out of the New Deal with an opening remark of eight significant words: "Had this been a free and open convention...
Month ago, an epidemic of sword swallowing started through the instinctively Republican ranks of businessmen. A frequent remark, especially in suburban and junior-executive circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was Adolf Hitler, who had reawakened in America the dormant sensation of patriotism. And President Roosevelt, by his aggressive rearmament policy, had begun to deflect the U. S. businessman's hatred of the New Deal toward Berlin. Young Republicans mistrusted Roosevelt, but they mistrusted the bumbling, obsolete, Chamberlainesque rituals...
...preface Hans Zinsser takes heart in a remark of Sainte-Beuve's: "Nothing is so painful to me as the disdain with which one often treats writers of the second rank, as if there were room only for those of the first." Considering the number and excellence of the second rank, As I Remember Him may belong, rather, to the third. But for any book half as abundant and a tenth as likable, there is room and welcome...