Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walk" is 96 pages long, so I cannot comment on all the various contributions, but must omit some that I liked, such as "Canto 6, Dante's Purgatorio" by Theodore Spencer, and some that I did not like at all, such as "Oono Dos Treys" by Bert Morton in order to get to the poetry, much of which is remarkably good. ("Oono Dos Treys," I should explain, is a labored story about a foetus that refuses to be born, but talks in erudite English inside the mother, an idea whose grotesque charm wears off rapidly after the first few scholarly...
...Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp ad-libbed his way into a radio job. On the strength of his guest appearances on Information Please and Town Meeting, he was hired as summer substitute for Drew Pearson. "I'll be a humorous news commentator," said Capp, "if I can find any humorous news to comment...
Crimson Samplesize S. Haudmedown was stunned by the news that his athletes would lock horns with a quadruped, but busy-manager Prenticemake (Sad) Sack guaranteed he'd get the goat. Commissioner Chandler could not be reached for comment...
Many times during its early existence, Pierian ran into the strict rulings of the Faculty, and many are the resolutions of protest in the records. For example, in 1839, one particular dictum aroused the following comment...
...American (Robert Ryan), a Briton, a Frenchman and a Russian who unite to rescue a famous advocate of Peace (Paul Lukas) from the Nazi underground, but then ride off in opposite directions, leaving him alone. For moviegoers who can't fathom this deep one, RKO provides explanatory comment that gets pretty far down...