Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...
Entertainment will feature the V-12 Swing Band and professional variety acts. The House Committee is making plans to have a surprise act as an added attraction, making no comment as to whether tassels would be involved...
...vacation, the President called reporters into Hobcaw and with a casual wave of his ivory cigaret holder announced that he was just about up to date on all current business. He had no comment on Sewell Avery, nor had he yet considered a successor for Frank Knox. As the well-tanned President arrived back in Washington, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, his personal physician, said proudly that his patient had shaken off his winter sniffles and bronchitis, declared: "I am perfectly satisfied with his physical condition . . . excellent shape ... as strong as he was a year...
...year enlisted women outnumbered enlisted men by more than 2-to-1; in two departments by 3-to-1. Male officers, who outnumbered WAVE officers 7-to-1 a year ago, now maintain their numerical superiority at the Navy Department by only 3-to-1. The Navy admitted without comment that in one bureau 158 eager WAVES had taken over the jobs...
...Comment elsewhere in the Senate and House: "Screwy talk ... as balmy as Hitler's . . . nonsensical . . . mischievous." In a hailstorm of editorials, the U.S. press asked the General, with varying degrees of asperity, to confine himself to such remarks as "Forward, men" and "Open fire...