Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleets. He was Navy Minister when Japan went to war, when the Navy let itself be sucked into the battle of Shanghai, when the Panay was bombed. He is said to have torpedoed an open military alliance with Germany last year with the remark: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor. It is not for hire by Hitler, or anyone else...
...right at home in her own tavern, having at last become an owner. Her thwarted love for Fulton descends upon Fred MacMurray, an uninspired but satisfactory waterfront bum who turns into a magnificent shipbuilder. Harriet Livingston, in the delightful person of Brenda Joyce, is the recipient of the best remark of a fair script, when Fulton, self introduced, says "Miss Livingston, J presume." Incidentally, they get married...
...administrator, with plenty of nerve, a fine radio voice, a record of action, a pretty wife, two sons, a home in the country and scarcely a handicap except the politically unusual one of being too young. His New York friends were hard put to it to find the right remark to make after he left the room, at last produced one: "It's almost impossible to dislike Tom Dewey until you know him well...
Three engines and the first chief handled the blase adequately. From tutor Thaddeus Lockhart came the remark. "That boy will have to have his studio couch re-done...
...diners heard many an Apted legend, heard that he was writing his memoirs. An acknowledged authority on Harvard pranks, he likes to remark: "The world would be surprised if they knew, as I do, the various stunts pulled at Harvard by some of the biggest men in the country." Colonel Apted has a telephone and a cashbox beside his bed, is accustomed to getting up at all hours to bail out Harvard tosspots. When a socialite is arrested, Colonel Apted always takes along an overcoat to shield the boy from photographers. He lends Harvard men money, takes care of their...