Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic has become one of the lost arts." The problem Harvard faces also seems to be a national one--the result of America's special ogre, standardization. Cursing cafeterias and similar quick lunch places whose proud boast is a meal a minute, the epicure goes on to comment regretfully on the days when dinners were both edifying and edible. Like Christopher Morley he is a strong advocate of the Three Hours for Luncheon Club...
...magazine it would be blessed with untold press notices and hounded with several hundred warrants. Most metropolitan actors and authors, and even some metropolitan architects, consider one slam in the New Yorker worth two favorable notices in less fashionable journals, for standards of criticism vary and what brings comment from Dorothy Parker and her playmates usually becomes the season's rage. Mr. Severance should not take offence--he should not even take $500,000. If he were to go to the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty Fourth Street tomorrow, he would undoubtedly find people gazing intently at his tower...
...introductory speaker tonight, as previously announced will be Mr. G. W. Britt, Chief Special Deputy of the Department of Revenue. He will outline the principles of the Coolidge rebate plan and will comment upon its practicability. The four prepared speakers following him will be allowed approximately five minutes each to express their views...
...following comment on the essay contest was made by W. H. Lewis, University Wrestling Coach...
...tournament adds to the occasion and hence is out to sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome of Mr. Tilden in the event, that his all-American acting team should be chosen, it only on the basis of Critic Benchley's cogent comment that Tilden could probably coin more cash with Pyle's than with his own theatrical troupe...