Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Booth was "dead," Bessie Hale did not take Bob Lincoln. He himself took some one else, long before Bessie married. He chose Mary, daughter of Senator Harlan of Iowa. They were married in 1868. And as the years went on, the inadequacy of a remark attributed to a guest at the ball described, became increasingly apparent. The guest had referred to Bob Lincoln as "a young man who will be known as the son of a president, if posterity remembers...
...Triangle". And it is really worth mentioning, worth even more than mentioning. For Lillian's muse is equal the fiddling flair of Maine's minstrel of the bobbed haired wife. It prefaces a return to the casual in contemporary letters and, more than that, reminds me of the Marks' remark about the Revere Beach of yesterday, the Coney Island of today...
...view of the general high standard of excellence it would be almost invidious to particularize. Nevertheless, in justice one must remark upon the humorous insight evident in Mr. Henderson's "Piano Specialty", the rhythmic swing of the Mandolin Club's performance of the Strauss waltz, the excellent numbers furnished by the Gold Coast Orchestra, including the inimitably accurate German band, the unusually fine violin solos by W. Lind, the highly diverting ventriloquist dialogue by M. Perry, the virtuosity of Mr. Benfield upon the marimba xylophone, and Mr. Moynahan's fantastic dance. Against these high lights furnished by individuals, the Banjo...
...activities of Crown Prince Gustaf, in connection with the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq), his archeological excavations on the site of ancient Asine, and his work as a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee, have attracted considerable quiet notice. His most widely bruited remark was allegedly made to Lady Louise of Mountbatten (formerly Princess of Battenburg) at the time when she was being pressed to marry him by his second cousin George...
Benito Himself. Il Duce's wife and children are not so much as mentioned, but that his youth was at one time scarcely celibate is delicately implied by referring to "the blond mane of a young Russian girl" who called him "Benitouchka," and by a remark about the time when "he lived in a brolanda kept by a baccana. These are not really Italian words but coinages of our Italian emigrants, meaning a lodging house of the humblest kind kept by an attractive young woman...