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Word: remarked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tsuneo Matsudaira presented the President with a pleasing speech and letters of credence as Ambassador from Japan. In reply, the President referred to "your predecessor, Mr. Masanao Hanihara, who so congenially and helpfully represented your Government among us"?a remark perilously near a lie or an opinion by Stephen Leacock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Mar. 30, 1925 | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...Marshal therefore suggested that a treaty of security for France should be negotiated with British Powers (see INTERNATIONAL). Lord Crewe, British Ambassador to France, blocked further discussion with the cryptic remark that the Marshal's report did not constitute what was wanted. It was subsequently agreed by the assembled Ambassadors that M. Foch should prepare another report setting forth categorically the extent of Germany's violations of the disarmament provisions of the Treaty and make specific recommendations to oblige Germany to fulfill her technical defaultations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Commission's Report | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious composition that any female, however talented, should attempt to render?" Such questions are, of course, absurd; nor are there many remaining critics who can establish a reputation for mordacity by frequent quotation of Ruskin's remark that it is the province of man to create and woman to praise. Nevertheless, the fact remains that while orchestras of women are usually adequate, adeptly trained, they are seldom impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Women | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

...being in the air, the President went windowshopping on F Street without his overcoat. A sample of some goods, sent by the owner of a woolen mill in Lawrence, Mass., with an offer to furnish enough free material to make the President an inauguration suit, was returned with the remark that the President liked the material and would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...that time, Joseph Jefferson was the most famous actor on Broadway. Said he: "God bless the Little Church Around the Corner." His remark became the sobriquet of the church and an English idiom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Idiom | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

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