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...said 'Abbe.' So he said 'What a family.' " The children soon got their father's number. "Papa is a very poor business man, but he does no one any harm. He just doesn't understand about money." They remembered many a grownup remark, such as the Frenchman's on "funny people from England": " 'Such bounders. All puffed up and bragging about knowing Augustus Johns, the painter. No real dignity in life...
...English professor, still as shaggy and vital as an airedale, J. Duncan Spaeth had traveled 1,000 miles westward to dedicate a library, his first official act as president-elect of fledgling University of Kansas City. At his Kansas City audience-Professor Spaeth boomed the savory part of a remark which had endeared him to whole classes of Princetonians: "When two men love the same woman it doesn't make for friendship. But when they love the same book there is a magnificent bond between them...
...House of Commons lobbies a remark frequently heard was that this appointment was a "Baldwin bumble" and that Sir Thomas may be expected to "out-bumble Baldwin." Particularly scathing was Winston Churchill, whose friends had ardently angled to get him the appointment. Silently disappointed were such publicly groomed aspirants as Sir Samuel Hoare and the Air Minister, Viscount Swinton...
...Some biographers disagree with Ambassador Troyanovsky; they would attribute this remark to Phineas Taylor Barnum...
...time what was behind his courteous, smiling but aloof manner. They have now decided that it is chiefly an intense absorption in his job. After eight months, most of the strangeness between Baltimore and President Bowman has worn off, and his sincerity and honesty are universally conceded. But a remark still frequently heard around city and campus is: "He's a fine executive, but he'd be a hell of a man to go on a fishing trip with...