Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice in a footnote on page 60 of your issue of Nov. 12 an interesting remark of Wm. Lyon Phelps' about Father Riggs. In view of Prof. Phelps' observation that "he has done both" (i.e., written musical comedy and joined the Catholic clergy), you will be interested to know that Father Riggs' two most recent literary ventures are a highly theological translation from the French just published by Macmillan-and a translation of Rostand's "The Last Night of Don Juan." The translation of Rostand, as yet unpublished, is as beautiful, subtle and polished...
...Grand Rabbi and even the grandson of a Grand Rabbi but he was a Grand Rabbi himself; his name was Jehuda Leib Twersky, he was of venerable age, he came from Antwerp and he had a long, black, fluffy beard. The only clue to his thoughts was a remark he made when it was all over: "I believe that it was the most wretched experience of my whole life...
...evening, the student loses his scholastic character in that of a man of the world. All he need do is to dress like everybody else; but it may perhaps be worth while to remark that a man who carries an opera hat lined with anything but black might properly be termed a howling cad or a graduate of the sister University mentioned before...
...matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally classic to remark about the dancing of Miss Moss. But, as the foreman of the pressroom, has just reminded me. I am not, at present, writing for "The Atlantic Monthly," and I shall have to postpone a record of my enjoyment of Miss Moss's iridescent and bubble dancing until some time...
...David Lawrence, able publisher of the United States Daily, writing in the Chicago Daily News, retold an historic remark uttered in the winter of 1920 by President-elect Harding to his private secretary, George Christian. The Harding Cabinet was being selected, under much political stress & strain. The Christian-Lawrence version of Harding's remark: "George, I've just got a hunch that it's the best thing to do and a big thing to do -to pick Hoover. This fellow can be a big factor in a big constructive way in this reconstruction period...