Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Point was lent by last week's stock-taking to a remark by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, March 29, THE LEAGUE) that "It may take years" for the U. S. to thrash out the whole matter of World Court reservations by diplomatic notes among the interested powers...
...hinge on the outcome of this fall's Congressional elections. In the Senate, the Democrats now have 39 members; are in danger of losing none; have good chances of gaining from four to ten seats. However, they do not forget the late Senator Medill McCormick's poignant remark after the 1924 Republican Convention: "All we Republicans have got is the certainty that the Democrats will ball things up for themselves, somehow...
...daughter, barring one reproduction of a group painted in oils. Doubtless Edsel Ford, and many another father whose eminence draws upon his family the curious eyes of the world, has often said to news photographers something similar to John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s reported remark of last week to camera-clickers in a Western state: "Go ahead, shoot me. I'm hardboiled. But you must leave my children strictly alone...
...Once more he must don garments in which he seems a bent and spectacled waiter whose mustaches droop. When he should stand up before the Royal Society of Literature to receive its gold medal, many a critical eye would be upon him. Dean Inge would certainly make some acidulous remark next day. Lord Darling might crack a senile quip upon the spot. And Louis Raemaekers would be there. His broad Dutch pencil might well produce a devastating caricature...
...State, I may remark, has taken the estates of numerous hanged criminals; but no one calls that going into partnership with felons...