Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the steady voice of a quarterback calling signals, or a very occasional remark by one of the coaches, Soldiers Field is an unusually quiet place this fall. The old electric megaphone has disappeared...
Except for the steady voice of a quarterback calling signals, or a very occasional remark by one of the coaches, Soldiers Field is an unusually quiet place this fall. The old electric megaphone has disappeared...
That was the sort of extreme statement -like Herbert Hoover's remark about grass growing in the streets-which might bounce back and make Candidate Truman regret that he had ever said...
...cannot stand Ferdinand but he beats us all for brains." Russia's peace-loving Leo Tolstoy came closer to the world's opinion when, as a curtain line in his play Plody Prosveshcheniya (The Fruits of Enlightenment), he had a valet pick up a newspaper with the remark: "Well well, let us see what our Ferdinand...
...There is a general and valid acknowledgment that the better the painter the dumber he must be, and out of this dumbness the critic is born and makes hay." French-born Jean Chariot, who wrote that bitter-seeming remark, is himself a cheerful contradiction of it. Chariot (rhymes with Hello) makes hay on both sides of the field. Last week his paintings and colored lithographs were packing people in at Colorado Springs's George Nix Gallery (including museum buyers from as far away as Washington, D.C. and San Diego), while Chariot himself expatiated on art in the Colorado Springs...