Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of television is not confined to what is seen on the end of the picture-tube. All that viewers saw or heard was Elsa Maxwell sassily telling Host Jack Paar that Walter Winchell had never voted; but this erroneous remark set off an off-camera scratching match between Columnist Winchell, Maxwell and Paar that was as ludicrous as anything visible on TV. See TV & RADIO, The Titans of Babel...
Truman was appearing before the House Banking and Currency Committee to prescribe a damn-the-deficits recession cure: a $5 billion tax cut, plus plenty of extra federal spending. Iowa's Republican Representative Henry O. Talle reminded him of the 1950 remark on unemployment. Snapped Harry Truman: "That exclusive interview never happened. It came...
...here again one supects that Russell would first of all smile and remark that this is a grossly unhistorical idea of what millions of Christians have meant for centuries whenever they said "and He was made man;" and secondly that his opponents speak they-know-not-what...
...mother's Shropshire family traversed western Europe to Bavaria many centuries ago. "One of my family claims we are related to the Rainiers--the Monaco Rainiers--but I think the relationship is a dubious one, very dubious... Yet it is fun when Grace bears yet another child to remark that the family is getting larger all the time...
Kittredge was a hale, hearty man, who chain-smoked cigars to save on matches and always wore a pearl-gray suit. He carried a cane which he held high in the air to stop Harvard Square traffic, causing one truck driver to remark, "Who do you think you are--Santa Claus?" He also used his cane to knock the hats off students rude enough to wear them inside Widener. An associate of Leverett House, his portrait hangs in the Dining Hall there...