Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conspicuous were Judge Elbert Boozer, who moves about with a $20,000 trailer built as a replica of the state capitol, complete with desks, radio telephones and a copper dome raised and lowered pneumatically; Eugene ("Bull") Connor, Birmingham's police commissioner, whose political views are enshrined in his remark: "I ain't going to let no darkies and white folks segregate together in this town"; and Gordon Persons, Public Service Commission chairman, who will campaign by helicopter...
...police detective, riding with his wife through whooping crowds in the middle-class Catete district, whipped out his revolver when someone made a disparaging remark about the lady; in the ensuing gunplay, six were wounded. An air force officer, drunk enough to be offended by the sight of two men swimming at Tijuca Beach in their underwear, wounded one and killed the other...
...should be remembered, nevertheless, that . . . not until 1905 - long after the remark had won a secure place in American folklore - did several men who had heard Lincoln speak at Clinton come forward to assert that he had used these words . . . Naturally, implicit confidence cannot be placed in their statements. Moreover, several who were present at the Clinton meeting had no recollection of Lincoln's use of the epigram...
...Federal Theater, now author of the hit Death of a Salesman. Miller had told Niles that his income taxes were so big lately that he felt he had "amply repaid the Government for the help it gave me in WPA days." Niles said he repeated the Miller remark to Lyons, who built a White House survey...
Phillips' career testified to the truth of Dostoevsky's remark that "an aristocrat is irresistible when he goes in for democracy." He risked his life repeatedly, faced mobs with the hauteur of a nobleman awaiting the guillotine, and dissipated his fortune in charities. In an age of florid oratory he stirred his listeners with a lean, precise, deadly effective style. When Emerson heard him, he felt as if "the whole air was full of splendors." A Virginia paper called him "an infernal machine set to music...