Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clergy in matters of education, was rudely deserted by Alsace-Lorraine members because, as a spokesman put it, the other Deputies were so ignorant of conditions in those provinces and because they would listen neither to advice nor to reasoning. The action of the Alsace-Lorraine Deputies caused lively comment in the corridors of the Chamber; it was evident that they had many friends...
...Jesus never intended to save us the trouble of thinking," declared the Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers '82, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge when asked to comment on a recent statement by Alfred W. Martin of New York to the effect that "there are pressing problems of our modern world on which the ethics of Jesus does not help...
...ordinary pullman car, and ate in the diner. (Cost of a special train $6,000; a private car $2,200. Estimated cost of the journey to the party $500. The saving is to the Government since cost is paid out of the President's expense account.) Comment: 1) "Good example of economy." 2) "False economy; public travel too dangerous." ¶ In Chicago the President telephoned and asked the health of General Charles G. Dawes. At luncheon in the Drake Hotel he spoke to the Commercial Club saying: "We cannot hope indefinitely to maintain our country as a specially favored...
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...realms of sentiment. Mr. Finley returns to his former suavely acid insinuations, and quite convinces us that the entire Workshop affair is after all, merely another absurd and inconsequential eddy in the comic stream that college is. Hugh Whitney's "Ballad", next in order, is exquisitely done and comment seems superfluous Whitney Cromwell unleashes the ironic whiplash of his tongue in "The Salesman", and Charles Allen Smart, in the last of the four distinctly good things in the number, presents a vivid picture in "Exploration...