Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Willis: "I hope there is nothing personal about that remark. If so, I shall resent it vigorously...
...prepared to receive a Voltairian scorching. Said Mr. Reed: "Mr. President, I do not know that we shall gain anything by prolonging a discussion of this kind. I am sorry it has occurred. So that I may remove all taint of suspicion that I speak from interested motives, I remark that I was born and reared in the Presbyterian faith. . . . I do not propose to interfere with the efforts of the Executive to protect the interests of the United States until and unless it becomes manifest that he is pursuing a dangerous course. . . . Sir, I do not believe...
...after "Victory" but I'm defeated', was the remark made to me in passing by another young fellow who had turned away from the Conrad shelf after seeing that someone ahead of him had the book he wanted...
...Perhaps the college could print a cross word puzzle with each set of examinations to keep its representatives from restlessness, one that would take just a hundred and seventy-five minutes to solve so that there would still be time before the close of the examination for the traditional remark concerning the lateness of the hour. For it is doubtful whether even those with the steadiest of nerves would object to the passing of peripatetic proctors...
...superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will be cross with you." Many of these people curl the lip, reflect with Hugo Riesmann: "His last works only too clearly reveal his determination to make a sensation...