Word: comment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personality needs no comment when it is so fresh in the public mind, but public men inspired by his death spoke nonetheless last week...
Australia, not without much comment, raised successfully through the House of Morgan $75,000,000. In the South African Parliament the question was debated whether or not the Union should raise a loan in Manhattan or London. Ex-Premier Smuts favored London and the debate ended inconclusively...
...Lafayette Escadrille was formed in Paris for service in Morocco. Granville A. Pollock of New Orleans and Charles W. Kerwood of Philadelphia volunteered to pilot bombing airplanes, and Charles Sweeney and Paul Rockwell, U. S. veterans of the Foreign Legion, volunteered as observers. Much comment was heard regarding the efficient and up-to-date methods by which Abd-el-Krim is conducting his campaign. His staff work seems of a high order, each attack evidently being-planned with great care and almost invariably at the weakest point of the French positions, made weak, of course, by the staff...
...Subscriber Walker is Managing Editor of the Albany Sunday Telegram. - ED. * Yes. The Mercury's comment was favorable, as follows: "Buffalo's Touraine, of the good Howie-gay and generous, for all he be a Scot."-ED " *The original Cassandra, legendary daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, tricked Apollo for a gift of prophecy. In revenge, Apollo ordained that none should believe her. In vain Cassandra prognosticated the ruin of Troy, in vain the death of Agamomnon...
...title match, Westland clung close to par. Lamprecht would have none of it. He cracked out three consecutive 34-5, the first two of which shaved the course record, then holed two more fours to scuttle Westland, 9 and 7. Such golf as Lamprecht's would have caused comment in a national tournament. Soon it may, for Champion Lamprecht is an older college man than most (some years ago he attended Cornell), and his perpetual smile betokens a golfing disposition...