Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irving Brant of the Chicago Sun asked a question that drilled to the nerve of the cavity-like omission in the President's statement: Have you any comment on the position of General de Gaulle? Mr. Roosevelt shook his head, negatively. In after thought he added: He wouldn't worry about it. It's all right. Then, in further afterthought three days later, he received mustached Andre Philip, Minister of Interior for the Fighting French...
...rush when excited, he went on teaching at Lawrenceville School and the University of Chicago long after he became famous. Most traditional and cloistered of novelists, he suddenly turned a somersault, became the most adventurous of playwrights. He much prefers plays to novels because of their "absence of editorial comment." He admires Authors Ernest Hemingway, Glenway Wescott, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the late great Marcel Proust, James Joyce, can recite word for word whole pages of Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
They established a board (usually four men) to evaluate instructors, reteach them basic elements of flying twin-engine planes. (Typical comment: "I learned little things that were not put across to me when I was a cadet...
Although Dean Buck was not available for further comment last night, it was believed that the move had been made not only to speed the academic year and get men finished with their exams as quickly as possible, but also to make way for the Army, which will probably be assigning men here for specialized training...
...while he was Treasurer, Schroeder defended him, won a sensational acquittal, which was followed by charges of jury fixing.* Known as a good organizer and money-raiser, prosperous Lawyer Schroeder is close-mouthed and shrewd. When he does make a statement, it is apt to be fence-straddling. Typical comment this week: "I haven't said anything on Wendell Willkie...