Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basso has written of the South. The region of his novelist's imagination is a sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
There is no doubt whatever about the justice of this comment. The play is frightful. Though concerned with the private life of a stripteaser, Playwright Lee has snubbed her recollections, which might have been gay and rackety, to indulge her imagination, which is chaotic, and display her wit, which is calamitous. Her Honey Bee Carroll (Joan Blondell) inhabits an insane world of trained dogs, live monkeys, mauve milliners, thieving ladies'-room attendants-a world that Gypsy never makes funny and somehow manages to make sexless...
...advertisements, ranging from Colonial day notices of brandy fresh off the boat to Victorian plugs for high-wheeled gentlemen's velocipedes and high-heeled ladies' boots. This collection of the ads that moved Father to buy is both nostalgic and funny. Coony Author Crow presents it without comment, as if it had nothing to do with the times which it so perfectly illustrates (see cuts...
...Duke its lingering traces poison his biography with a wit which seems studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple words and direct actions glow through his book as they did through the anguished Europe of Wellington...
...Hungarian radio announced: "It would be wrong to expect an atmosphere of distrust in Moscow." The Finnish radio said: "The smaller countries hope that agreement will be reached at the Moscow conference." BBC, sifting Balkan news and comment, reported that Rumania showed a panicky realization that she was on the wrong side, while Bulgaria was pinning her hopes on her refusal to declare war on Russia...