Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago the "Chicago Trlbune" felt in duty bound to expose the irresponsible juvenility of American colleges. In its editorial columns it called attention to the unpleasant details of "the Mount case" at Northwestern University, and the comment resulting from it, throughout the world. For the French press had secured a version of the incident, and the Paris "Matin" wrote: "the tragedy sheds a great light upon the strange customs of American university life...
...rowdyism of the Royalists met with hostile comment in the Chambre des Députés, where within three months another riotous scene occurred (TIME, March 31). Leon Daudet, leader of the Royalist Party in Paris, editor of l'Action Française, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged...
Many of the charges are vague and anonymous. Some of them are ridiculous. Art experts are reserved in their comment-and for good reason. It may cost $500,000 to say another dealer's wares are fake. Sir Joseph Duveen is even now being sued for that amount for alleged aspersions on the genuineness of a statue. Others have faced similar suits...
...siege of the McAlpin by Columbia sophomores, the annual mud-rush at Podunk, and the arrest of a college student for parking too near a fire plug stimulate more frenzied press comment and red-typed leads than the forming of the League of Nations Collegiate Council, the publication of the "Gadfly" and an address by President Eliot together. Naturally, the papers print what their readers want, and the public's interest in college activities is still confined to the lurid incidents which popularly constitute "college life...
This is strictly true. The Supreme Court decision was promulgated on April 30. Bare announcement of the fact was all that got into most English papers on May 1. On May 2 there was a flood of comment, from which most of TIME'S quotations were drawn. The Monitor's stories referred to were published on May 3 and May 4. Comment had dropped off to a certain extent in the British press on these two following days, but there was no apparent change in its sentiment...