Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thank you for your comment in the horrid story of a high-school sorority initiation [TIME, Jan. 13], to the effect that the properly shocked foreign lady was assured by her U.S. friends "that it was not typical of college sororities...
...fear that "Lippy" Durocher had been rendered speechless by love began to haunt deepest Brooklyn. Out in California, 3,000 miles away, the man with the built-in snarl had been turning away reporters' questions with a soft "No comment!" To Mother Brooklyn, that attitude became Durocher like a hole in the head...
...fetching $5 on the black market, and bookstores were sold out of the regular edition. Responsible for the boom: the head of the police Morals Bureau, who suppressed the 25? Acre because "it was too easy for kids to get it." Did he find the book obscene? "No comment," said...
Laughter from the Galleries. Brewster was interested in Tydings' comment on "this measure being of a bastard parentage." He thought it was rather strong language, "particularly as the origin of the committee was in the gentleman who is now President of the United States." He recalled that 13 Democrats had voted against the reorganization act-"with the spirit of which they are now so much concerned"-and 17 were not interested enough to show up for the vote. On the other hand, he recalled, 23 Republicans had voted for the measure...
Friendly Firmness. There you have our problem in a nutshell. It is not an easy one. It is complicated by the fact that those who, like the Russian, do not want his worst traits pandered to by people in this country on whom the kindest comment would be that they were well-intentioned. On the other hand, intelligent and realistic people must not lose patience with the Russian too soon...