Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain of rolls, nearly a ton of hot dogs; Fulton had exuberantly expected 40,000; less than 23,000 came. His train rolled east again, while the old man read the papers that were brought him, his pink face lengthening, his blue eyes hardening at the angry editorial comment his speech had aroused. He rested briefly in Washington...
Lord Keynes, British money expert, arriving in the U.S. for a meeting of Bretton Woods wizards, was asked by newsmen to comment on a Londoner's remark that the U.S. loan would make England "an illegitimate 49th state of the Union." Smiled Keynes: "No such luck...
Orderly House. "Mr. Lewis comes back with full membership," said Bill Green. "It might be interpreted as a move ... to place the house of labor in order." Bill Green had decided to forgive & forget-even to the point of ignoring Lewis' famed 1940 comment: "I have done a lot of exploring of Bill's mind, and I give you my word, there is nothing there." He bludgeoned the hotel management into finding a suite for Lewis, said he might take John to the beach...
Disgruntled Britons, still griping about the proposed $4.4 billion loan from the U.S., had a somewhat sour spokesman in one Tom Collins, London suburbanite. His comment, in a News Chronicle interview: "The loan should be liquidated by charging the U.S. a yearly rental for the use of the English language...
...haired Thomas William Barnes, 85, who runs the little Red Brick Corner Hotel, offered a free site. Bill Cook, who sent four sons off to World War II, gave $25 out of his World War I Army pension. Sergeant Billy Brown, just back from overseas, chipped in with the comment: "It's a great idea." Within an hour 100 Hamptonians had subscribed...