Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent months I have read so much nonsense on the unconditional surrender of our foes I thought perhaps a comment from a soldier might be appropriate...
...Mumbo-Jumboism Sirs: Apropos your recent article on "Churches in Russia" (TIME, April 12) and particularly with regard to this quotation: "Most foreign observers . . . believe that the Kremlin is basically just as anti-religious as it ever was," I should like to offer a word of parenthetical comment. It is apparently little remembered that pre-revolution Russia's official religion - and consequently "religion" as the Russians understand the term - was about as unchristian a religion as any African mumbo-jumboism. In support of this I offer the following statements made by John MacMurray, eminent professor of moral philosophy...
Writing this long before Thursday, we can't comment on the Navy Review at Soldiers Field. But dress rehearsal looked good to us, especially the smart looking outfit that preceded us. We offer seven cents to the first Midshipman to invite a WAVE to dinner some night, excluding Lee Shannon, who is about to marry one. Company II will raise the auto to 14 cents if Bob McDonall takes...
...Even coeds who talked much of reducing ate [potatoes] regularly when they were free. But when a charge was made . . . the coeds began to comment frequently on their fattening qualities, and a few even shuddered when they passed them at the cafeteria counter...
...more exciting experiences. The slides, in Kodachrome, run all the way from one of "Captain Jock" being carried to a cannibal's pot on a polo, to another of a very beautiful Balinese debutante, at which point the projector usually jams. "Captain Jock," who was briefly reached for comment last night, could only say that his South Sea Island trip was "very nice...