Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...event gave rise to a prodigious amount of comment upon French finance...
Black Oxen. The wave of comment blown up by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's novel washed it immediately into the movies. To play it, Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle were summoned. They managed to do some rather effective acting in a moderately uninteresting play. The plot, of course, discusses the rejuvenation of Mme. Zattiany and her absorbing effect on Lee Clavering, newspaper columnist...
...Boots. In these columns last week was a comment to the effect that Mary Jane McKane was the captain of the current musical troupe. This statement is hereby withdrawn. Kid Boots deposes Mary Jane; furthermore it numbers only Sally and Good Morning Dearie among its competitors in general excellence for five years past...
...sensational behavior of Southern States Oil stock on the New York Curb and elsewhere recently, has created much comment. The sponsor for the stock, C. M. Haskell, was formerly Governor of Oklahoma; retiring from political life in 1922, he became personal attorney for Harry F. Sinclair, and still later, an oil operator and promotor of evident wealth. Southern States Oil is only one of several so-called "Haskell oil companies...
While not pretending to decide either question, it may be permitted to comment upon them. As regards prohibition, one may with some confidence expect the college vote to favor "more vigorous enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment" rather than modification or repeal. For contrary to newspaper editorials and periodic sudden squalls on the part of reformers, the majority of college students, like the majority of the nation, are unwaveringly dry. More interesting will be the revelation of how strong the minority is in college and how strong the minority of Atlantic Coast states is in the nation...