Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pausing in Williamstown, Mass., last week, William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., uttered a geographical comment on U. S. education...
...Author displays an intellect profound, searching, inclusive, an artistry profound and subtle in all his works. These in translation have been Royal Highness, ironic comment on the life of kings; Death in Venice, three short stories; Buddenbrooks, monumental saga of the 19th Century. Son of a merchant, Herr Mann had to write secretly at first, functioning ostensibly as a life insurance salesman...
...first issue of the "Tiger" appeared in March, 1882, and elicited the following editorial comment from the "Harvard Daily Herald", which then held the position of regular University news organ: "A screaming 'Tiger', going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces...
...subsequent comment on the impending struggle between the new and the old representatives of the wit that emanates from colleges says: "A third competitor has now entered the field in the form of the Princeton 'Tiger': and although no judgement can fairly be made from a single number, and that a first issue, it seems likely that the 'Tiger' may prove itself some time a rival by no means to be despised. Naturally we doubt if the 'Lampoon' is in any imminent danger of being surpassed by either the 'Spectator' or the 'Tiger', but a healthy and friendly emulation...
Point after point, policy after policy, fact after fact, were dealt with by Signer Mussolini for two hours and a half, while the Chamber buzzed with comment, indulged in a spontaneous laugh, or applauded the Duce...