Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good enough!" was the laconic remark of L. H. Stone '25, early yesterday, when informed by a CRIMSON reporter of the appointment of his father, Harlan F. Stone, as attorney-general. Asked whether he would spend his spring vacation in Washington instead of New York, as he had previously planned, Stone laughingly replied: "Aren't you rushing matters a little? I don't know...
Said Senator Borah of Idaho: "Judge Kenyon knows more about law books than about battleships"? a remark which led many to suspect that the Judge might accept the Attorney-Generalship should it fall vacant...
Thomas A. Edison: "At a luncheon given by the cinema industry in my honor, I danced a jig, jokingly accounted for my capers by saying I had monkey glands. Besieged by literal-minded reporters, I explained that there was no literal truth in my remark...
...Conant remembers only one modern repetition of these incidents. That came as a result of a remark last year by President Lowell in a speech at one of the exercises of the Senior class. "He said something about the boys nowadays not having the pep they used to have because they never did anything to the bell. That night some of them smashed down the door and stole the tongue just to show him he was wrong, I suppose...
...slighting remark followed by a punch...