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Word: remarkable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make most countries, oldtime Alaskans are wont to remark, but the Klondike made men. Last week some 500 men & women the Klondike made gathered in the Multnomah Hotel in Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Sourdough Social | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...this, Sculptor Bufano's artistic friends were not slow to remark that a "drool cloth" was something Mr. Pegler needed himself. Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better. The horseplay stage of the controversy then began. Old Newshawk Pegler played ball with the boys by posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: San .Francisco's Saint | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Cartoonist Harold Morton Talburt of the Scripps-Howard chainpapers drew the week's ablest Third Termite cartoon-a paraphrase of Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson's remark of last fortnight that "duty" might compel Franklin Roosevelt to run again (TIME, Aug. 15). While the President in uniform stands contentedly on the second (term) sack and a harassed elephant pitcher stands afraid to pitch lest the runner steal third, Mr. Manager Michelson runs out on the diamond shouting: "Aw quit worryin' about him! He ain't gonna run-that is he ain't unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Head Examined | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Patrick altogether-as when he recalls the remark of a Dublin professor ("And the worst of it is that trumpery diseases which we never knew we had lift their heads and obtrude themselves the moment you go on the water-wagon"); when he praises the Irish language ("Ireland is either a Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's Saint | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...pleasing to the ears of a President who faces elections in the fall was Lord Stamp's remark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Leafy Spurge & Creeping Jenny | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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