Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honduran incident, which excited much comment owing to the previous American occupation of Haiti, was caused by the fighting in Tegucigalpa when General Juan Angelo Arias and General Francisco Bueso- who seized dictatorial powers on the death of former President Rafael Lopez Gutierrez-were driven from the capital by rebels led by Generals Tiburcio Carias and Gregorio Ferrera...
...Albania, and Italy and Greece have all been satisfactorily settled," he declared, "and war, which threatened in each case, has been averted. I have never seen a time so intense, a time so difficult to resist hysteria, as when the Corfu question was being discussed. There has been much comment in regard to the inability of the League to handle this dispute, but I have never heard an intelligent person say that the world would have been better if the League had not existed at that time. This quarrel may be likened to that between Serbia and Austria...
...ridiculous for men to sign pledges like that" was his comment on the report of the method by which pacifism was being spread," and I don't believe those men realized what they were doing. It would be absolutely impossible for them to keep such a pledge in the event our country went to war. If they refuse to fight for conscientious reasons, then they will be put to digging graves, or some other important activity behind the lines...
...decided surprise. It is at once an evidence if a renewed sanity in political outlook and an indication of the seriousness of the food problem in Germany. As an expression of a forgiving spirit and a desire to alleviate unnecessary; suffering the bill should call forth only favorable comment, which even the suspicion that the measure was in part designed for the very practical purpose of pleasing the American farmer and "consolidating the German vote" does not embitter. The overwhelming pon-party vote in its favor expresses the Business of Congressional sympathy...
...They are novelties," said Dr. John Roach Straton when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the teachings of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, prominent New York Modernist clergymen. "They appeal to curiosity and to vanity. They tell their congregations that everything is all right. Instead of rebuking sin, they soft-soap. What is the use of a preacher if everything is all right...