Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Individually the college student is nothing, but collectively he is a problem. As an individual he receives only routine attention; as a class he receives all sorts of gratuitous comment, mostly unfavorable. Individually he only wears clothes, but collectively he sets fashions, or at least such is the opinion of the Illinois Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association, an organization which can justly afford to be interested in the "college man" inasmuch as it proposes to do something about it. It is prophesied that next spring this problematical personage will array himself in a light gray suit. His hat will...
...after 5 o'clock that day I left the building with my appointment to take command of the Leviathan in my pocket. Commodore Cunningham, "Handsome Harry" to his colleagues and a charming memory to ladies and gentlemen who have sat at his table, received his promotion with little comment. He was bringing the George Washington through a ponderous North Atlantic storm at the moment. After docking, all he said was: "The bridge of the Leviathan is just a little higher, but I'll be just the same up here. Come...
After this vigorous comment, Miss Gordon diverted her conversation to the subject of sex on the operatic stage...
...problems of American colleges. And because he chose merely to be an optimistic reporter of the surface facts, this conclusion was something of an anti-climax. The effect of club life and self support on undergraduate democracy he felt to be a dangerous subject better set forth without injudicious comment. At Harvard," he said, "it is taken for granted that a certain social status in the outside world is essential to election in certain societies." In the matter of manners he only suggested the state of affairs described by the widely touted Miss Cabot, and invested them with...
...most virulent, emphatic, & apposite comment on the encyclical, which reiterated Roman Catholic refusal to make unifying concessions (TIME, Jan. 23), was that contributed by Dr. Robert Norwood, Manhattan non-sectarian clergyman. Famed for the sweeping periods of his rhetoric, for the expansive, oratorical gestures with which he embellishes his sermons, he stated his opinion of the Pope's document at a meeting of the American Waldensian* Aid Society: "The encyclical recently compounded is a childish document springing from an obsolescent ecclesiasticism, a remote legacy of the imperial idea of ruling the Kingdom of Christ by the Imperialism of Caesar...