Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeamish . . ." began the arch-Republican New York Sun in a front-page editorial one day last week. "It is convention, not the Constitution . . . which forbids open comment on the possibility that a President may be succeeded by his Vice President. . . . Six Presidents . . . have died in office. . . ." By this week the rabidly anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which is seldom squeamish about anything, was bravely facing the facts that Tom Dewey is 42 and Franklin Roosevelt is 62. (If either were to die in office, the News added, then John Bricker is obviously a fitter successor than Harry Truman...
...lines have been neatly tailored to her talents. They include such easy lines of cryptic folk poetry as "Was ya ever bit by a dead bee?" An even easier line, sure to bring down any decently vulgar house, is her comment on Bogart's second, emboldened kiss: "It's even better when you help." Besides good lines, there are good situations and songs for Newcomer Bacall. She does a wickedly good job of sizing up male prospects in a low bar, growls a louche song more suggestively than anyone in cinema has dared since Mae West...
...parents and wives to have our soldiers brought home as soon as possible ; 2) spreading confusion and arousing controversy by the nomination of General MacArthur for supreme command in the Pacific. . . . To date, confusion rather than illumination has resulted from this candidate's public utterances. I shall not comment on their good taste. The next step might well be an effort to distill votes from the tears of the bereaved...
Frou-Frou and Satire. The old Parisian skill was evident. In some of the old Parisian froufrou, the subtle political and social comment also was evident. Schiaparelli offered a model with a bustle in front. Lelong put jeeps on charm bracelets. Agile, aging (70) Madame Jeanne Lanvin (who served iced drinks to shivering patronesses} showed a slinky, black, backless, low-front evening dress called "Liberty." She also offered a simple frock of palest pink named "Free France...
...Political Bushwhacking." Press comment was generally divided along partisan lines. The New York Times, which seems to prefer Term IV to Tom Dewey, praised the speech; the Republican New York Herald Tribune derided it. Of the independents, the most significant comment came from the Washington Post, which is more often pro-Roosevelt than not. The Post severely criticized the speech as "a cheap variety of political bushwhacking . . . at a moment when spiritual leadership of a high order is urgently needed. . . . It is doubtful whether the President's indispensability complex has ever been more boldly exhibited...