Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again war meant the distinction of West Point through its graduates. The long list of one-time cadets whose service on either side in the Civil War was outstanding is too well known for comment. But the apathy of peace meant forgetfulness anew of West Point's im- portance, and for 30 years the progress of the Academy was little noted. With the turn of the century a new administration came into power on the Hudson, and a climatic period of growth accompanied it. The Corps was increased by 100 cadets, hazing was abolished, and practically all the present magnificent...
Best known as H. H. Asquith, this great parliamenarian and leader of the Liberal Party has revealed himself to an unusual degree. Brought into intimate contact with monarchs and statesmen through three generations, his comment on these celebrities is distinctly illuminating. Letters of prime importance and remarkable passages from his contemporary notes of the World War period are given to the public for the first time. 2 vols...
...There is hardly any need to comment on the Harvard backfield. Obviously you possess several brilliant runners and defense players composing a well balanced group. If Harvard continues to turn out the performance which it gave against us today I think it will cause a lot of worry this fall to any team in the East...
There is no editorial comment on the interviews, such as one might expect, and the editors might have seen fit to put in. It would have been easy to spoil things by inserting, at the end of the chapter on student morals, some tongue-clucking viewing-with-alarm. But no; you can read confession and revelation, and decide for yourself...
...Author. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis arrived in the U. S. last week, was greeted and dined by Manhattan writer-folk. He is of Welsh-Irish ancestry, lives in St. Germain outside Paris, sends a regular column of comment to the London Daily Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans...