Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank you for a story that did much to improve the gout sufferer's image [Feb. 18]. My husband's gout attack was met by others with a "ho, ho, ho" attitude and the usual remark, "That's the disease of the boozers and the high living." Now he ought to command a little respect with that painful...
...knees and wrists together, her eyes deflected in reverie, her hands holding playing cards like a fan. She was appalled that he depicted her with gambler's tools, but for all her chamber-music modesty, she was not without a sense of humor. She loved recounting Degas' remark as he admired one of her many mother-and-child scenes, "It has all your qualities and all your faults," he had said, unable to resist an acid aside. "It is the Infant Jesus and his English nanny...
...Regarding your remark [Jan. 7] about our high-quality but as yet little-noticed basketball team: the school is not quite as tiny as TIME seems to think; last year we had more than 1,000 male students. In any case, we have a new yell for the team-"Bring on the Blue Devils...
...divorce from his wife Sonji because her slacks were too tight and her makeup too much for his Muslim eye, but was ordered to pay $1,200 a month in alimony for ten years and $22,500 in lawyers' fees. All of which added point to Cassius' remark: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...
...evening party at a house whose staircase was split into two curves, he stood for 20 minutes at the bottom trying to find a logical reason for ascending by one side or the other. In France, it was a time when the Comte de La Rochefoucauld could still remark seriously of another aristocrat that his family were "mere nobodies in the year...