Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White House kitchen; replacement of a torn White House flag by a new one, with the understanding that the torn one be mended and used elsewhere. When the President turned in a dull eraser, the stockroom returned it with the comment that no new ones had been provided...
TIME is so good that perfection comes to be demanded! Hence this comment upon "one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick" (issue of Feb. 23, page 17). You refer to Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, widow of Henry Sidgwick, the famous English philosopher, sister of A. J. Balfour (now the Earl of Balfour), principal of Girton College, Cambridge, till 1910. She is probably the most experienced member of the Society for Psychical Research, a purely scientific organization with which she lias been intimately connected since its inception. Aside from her connections, she is, by right of her own achievement, among the most eminent of living...
Although he finds the South Seas entertaining, Manhattan proved his most disquieting experience since the War. After seeing his Simon Called Peter as a play, he had little comment; but when he saw the film version of Recompense, he said that he saw no reason why he should not write a new novel based on the film. What Price Glory impressed him very much, although he found the slang difficult to understand, particularly that used by the Marines. The liberality of the Manhattan theatre he found impressive for he, perhaps naturally, has no sympathy with censorship. Ah well, no more...
...active contemporary critical fraternity that includes in its ranks such contributors to the permanent literature of musical comment as Lawrence Gilman, William J. Henderson and Ernest Newman, cannot be said to be utterly destitute of real critics...
With your usual succinct, crisp and accurate strokes, you call attention to a fact which has been ignored so generally throughout recent months as to be a matter of comment among those who know the history of Negro education. I congratulate...