Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When he came out to California we gave him a complete briefing. He didn't do a single damned thing we suggested-like spending less time polishing up those speeches and more time meeting people. Another thing: I wish he weren't so 'witty.' That remark in Minnesota about 'Eisenhower slipped here'-to hell with it. The people like it straight. Just tell them the truth in simple English...
After meeting a pair of friends for lunch, the New Orleans lawyer ordered a Falstaff beer, touched a match to a Philip Morris cigarette, and settled comfortably back for a session of table talk. "Oh-oh," chided one of his friends, "I guess you drive a Ford, too." The remark had a point, and the lawyer caught it all too easily. He admitted that he did drive a Ford, but added: "I'm changing...
...systems and all the Houses have resident staffs, but nowhere does this system seem to possess such vitality as at Kirkland. The weekly staff dinners consistently draw a large crowd, with 35 to 40 an average figure. "They really keep me hopping here," Professor Taylor was once overheard to remark. And they...
...remark easily confused with one made by Delano's contemporary, Horace Greeley, who said, "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers were Democrats...
Bridey Murphy-born A.D. 1798, died 1864-first appeared in print in the fall °f J954, soon after a chance remark by Robert Cast, an attorney of Pueblo (pop. 80,800). Said Cast to his brother-in-law, William J. ("Bark") Barker of the Denver Post's Sunday supplement Empire: "Do you think there might be a story in a guy who has discovered that a woman in Pueblo lived an earlier life in Ireland in the 1800s?" Replied Newsman Barker: "Hell, yes." He wrote the story. Empire ran it in three installments as "The Strange Search...