Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method affords unequaled opportunities for comment and satire on a most everything from the manufacture of widgets to the latest place to go for a supper dance. Each part is as nearly perfect as it can be, while the bitter irony that runs through the whole fantastle affair never lets you forget that the play and its authors are dead in earnest...
...first public defense of the present administration. It may or may not have been published with the knowledge of the officers, but it is at least the first time that the dead silence hanging over University Hall has been broken. To the fire of criticism and comment which has been trained upon the administration there has hitherto been no return. Harsh critics have said that this silence implied guilt, or if not guilt, at least an arrogant contemptuousness. Whether the return fire is directed from within or not, it is well that this provoking silence is ended...
Lord Cecil's comment (subsequently indorsed by France- and the Netherlands) on the U. S. plan was, in effect, "Impossible! The time's much too short." Briefly, the noble lord wanted 15 years in which to suppress opium smoking, but he did not want that period to begin "until a date on which the effective execution of measures taken 'by China to suppress the growth of the opium poppy has reached such a stage as to remove the danger of opium smuggling from China into those territories...
...performance of Mr. Clive in the title role. "Uncle Anyhow"; the comedy by Alfred Sutro at the Copley Theatre this week, is hardly worth the attention of the Boston public. The other members of the cast offer sincere and finished portrayals of the lesser parts, a comment scarcely necessary in a discussion of the Copley Players, but the play itself is an inconsequential thing. Mr. Clive is so delightful, however, that he not only saves the piece from mediocrity but even makes it rank as one of the most enjoyable offerings of the winter at the Copley...
...Comment would be superfluous. When, if ever, you get back to running an AMERICAN paper instead of a hybrid of partly anarchy and partly worse, I shall hope to be advised of your reformation. Meantime please kill on mailing...