Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Typical of the German reaction as a whole were the Tageblatt's comment that "15,000,000 Europeans would have starved but for Herr Hoover," and the Vossische Zeitung's observation that: "Americans wish, after the colorlessness of their last two Presidents, to see a strong and big personality at the head of their State...
...Paris comment, calculating, rational, was well epitomized by that distinguished journalist M. Stephane Lauzanne, writing in the authoritative Matin: "In one word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor the world with his declarations in fourteen points. But it is certain that, with him as President, America will never suffer cold, nor hunger, nor privation...
With this major battle passed into recent history. British comment was almost wholly friendly toward Candidate Hoover...
...have not yet, however, approached the cardinal significance of the American exam game. The paragraph, skimmed by a twinkling eye, rousing no more than an amused comment on the inexhaustible inventiveness of those Americans, contains in truth the seeds of a mighty revolution in the intellectual history of all universities, and thus, in due time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will...
That beautiful magazine, The Sportsman, which is impeccable in taste and sportsmanship, printed Runner Paddock's remarks in its June issue. Editor Richard E. Danielson made the following comment...