Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Were startled by an astounding ambiguity let fall when the Prime Minister was intimating to the House that he favors the building of a railway tunnel under the British Channel (see International). The purport of easy-going Mr. Baldwin's care less remark was, in effect, that he would not be surprised if the forthcoming general election should sweep his party (Conservative) out of their present absolute majority control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that...
...attention to him, Joe. He's got a right to keep on sitting there if he wants to. This is a free country. Don't give him any time at all, Joe. Ignore him. What were you saying? Oh, yeh, the dean. Well he passed me some remark about why don't I live at college. In the Yard he meant or any ways in Cambridge. "Why not?" I says, stalling. Always stall, Joe, when you get into a jam with a dean. He thought I was trying to get control of my emotions. Losing my crack at college life...
According to the urbane Spectator, famed 100-year-old English weekly review, it is "a common saying and the usual remark" in England to observe...
Therefore Her Majesty was greatly vexed by the language and implication of Sir William's remark on Dec. 5 to the Hounslow Chamber of Commerce...
...Spencer Morgan Jr. is named for his great-grandfather, the Junius Spencer Morgan who in 1854 left the Boston dry goods field to become a partner in the London bank of George Peabody & Co. It was this Junius Spencer Morgan (not John Pierpont Morgan I) who originated the famed remark that "Any one who sells a bear on the United States will go broke." The present Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. was graduated from Harvard in 1914, is a Morgan partner, a director of General Motors, grandson of the late great John Pierpont Morgan who was largely responsible for the formation...