Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Aug. 31, Page 16, under the heading EDUCATION - subheading "Three Cantabs," there are two errors which probably would be passed without comment and absorbed by an unsuspecting public...
...have lately come here from the West Indies, where it was difficult to obtain (and then somewhat out of date) your admirable summary and comment. One of the advantages of being here is that I can get it every Wednesday...
...News, as in those of every other existing paper, occurs the phrase "His work was his recreation." It was true of Lawson. When he was in Europe a few years ago, a man 'of over 70, with his lifework behind him, he cabled daily 3,000 words of detailed comment and instruction to the News? received from that journals executives 5,000 words of questions and reports. His wife asked him to learn golf. He tried it, gave it up, said...
From Brigadier General Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Service, who had also observed the test from the air, came not even a tight-lipped comment. He kept silent...
This story should have concerned the old man intimately since it devoted its comment to the cycle of reactions through which that dotard had just passed - the chemistry of the human spirit in the alembic of time. Outlined against the movement of the writing - a writing informed, under its cool, low laughter, with an unforgettable emotion - moved phantoms the old man knew, ghosts that had shared and lost with him the long war of innocence against the lie of actuality. Sometimes the clear words seemed about to utter the unutterable, to shape the secret that everyone knows...