Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON ventures to cite this particular instance, though other gifts of similar limitations might also be used to illustrate the principle involved. This comment should not be taken as a reflection on all conditional gifts on even on most of them to do so would be not only to look into the mouth of a gift horse, but to insist on an X-ray of the molars. But the swimming-pool gymnasium situation is so typical of the exception that this comment is offered with no stinting of gratitude, but rather as a plea for an earlier availability...
...somewhat greater feat than even the silver cup donated to it would lead one to imagine. Last year the Choate schoolboys were commended for their publication of a sheet intrinsically sound in editorial policy, makeup and general appearance. In view of their repeating the former triumph mere laudatory comment is superfluous. If the editors of the Choate News were to he congratulated on an excellent newspaper last year, they deserve even greater praise for having maintained their high standard and repeated a performance which, as their rivals and judges at least know, requires mental and physical stamina. Moreover, in setting...
...were received at luncheon by the American Minister to Canada Later they were entertained at a tea in Government House by Lord and Lady Wellington McKenzie King, premier of Canada and many other notables. At the concert that evening the singers were again accorded an enthusiastic welcome. Press comment was favorable saying that "if anything is incomparable or unique, it is without an equal. It seems to me that the two words might justly be applied to the Harvard Glee Club, at any rate I have yet to hear its equal though I have heard many of the best European...
Banqueters looked at each other with amazement and terror. "Beedy is rash and foolish," said several. Others cried: "Beedy is right!" All agreed that his remarks, as transmitted through many a radio set into many a cozy sitting room, would rouse wide comment of approval or annoyance. Next morning they asked their friends who had been "listening in" what reaction Mr. Beedy's words had aroused. "What did he talk about?" said the friends. Banqueters soon learned that, considering his remarks too controversial for radio consumption, Christopher Bohnsack, director of WNYC, Manhattan municipal radio station, had turned a switch...
...impurities of opinion or emotion. Profundities, in one meaning, are avoided. It is as if Authorj Schnitzler had decided that pro; fundities could never be more than inconclusive platitudes and that in a world of chance and mischance, the fragmentary whims of humanity are alone absurd enough to justify comment...