Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flurry passed. Came comment on the Dawes report, plaudits for the League. Then David Hunter Miller, New York lawyer, started another tempest. Mr. Miller's admission ticket to the Institute was compounded of service with the American Peace Commission and experience as counsel for the German Government on the Upper Silesian question before the League...
...against her. Finally, the discussion was ended by Premier MacDonald, who said: " Obviously, this is a matter which ought to be dealt with in the most decent and proper way possible. We will do our best to do that." The press was divided in its sentiments. The most pertinent comment came from "Londoner," who conducts a column, known as "Daily Causerie," in The Evening Standard. Said he: " Why not have Lloyd George introducing the people's budget in 1909 or Lord Birkenhead's first speech in Commons in 1906? Surely Miss Margaret Bondfield taking her seat...
...trust idea in publications are to go beyond the mere exchange of overt advertising and to boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed as news or comment. It is usually fatuous, vapid. Its very effort to spread butter is nauseous and flat. The best publishing ethics has not yet forbidden this type of matter. Occasionally it turns up in the most respected journals. The New York Times is an example. Current History, a monthly journal of events, belongs...
Miss Stevenson has certainly done well to give to the English-speaking public such a diverting book, which presents the Court and the chief characters in the Court in their true perspective, without the bias of a La Bruyère, and which contains much sober comment on the depravities of the times, the inefficiency of doctors, and the wantonness of the French attack upon the Rhineland.† Moreover, it escapes the condemnation of reading like a translation, which is the best proof of the good scholarship of the editor and translator...
This statement was probably one of the chief contributions to Mr. Davis' nomination. It secured an immense amount of favorable comment...