Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walsh. Another who did not go to Houston was Thomas James Walsh, senior Senator from Montana, who withdrew his candidacy in favor of Smith after the latter won the California primary. Senator Walsh's comment on the nomination was: "Governor Smith is the most striking figure that has appeared on the political stage since Roosevelt...
...otherwise would precipitate quarrels in the higgledy-piggledy family that a circus is. Therefore, when the 1,800 employes of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey show received their pay in Montreal one day last week and entrained soon after for Ogdensburg, N. Y., the circus officials made no comment about the strange mounds that appeared in the bunks, strange piles in animal cages, strange packages stuffed into corners and tied under cars, all over the four-section caravan. They left the commenting to Prohibition agents at Malone, N. Y., after the trains had crossed the border. Such is the reputation...
German editorial comment, last week, was to the effect that while the Versailles Treaty stands all mere lapidary inscriptions are immaterial...
...Everyone knows of the terrific battle between Hearst and Pulitzer. Hearst lured the entire Sunday staff away from the World and also captured Arthur Brisbane when Pulitzer refused to let Brisbane write signed editorial comment...
...best policy. Metternich made the brothers Barons; they bought and fawned their way into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...