Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Darwin's Delight. Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling seer, certainly no poet, found other ways to comment on Captain Lindbergh's flight. One of the aviator's chief regrets was that he had not been able to see a whale. "It is too bad," said Mr. Brisbane, "for Lindbergh, flying low to study spouting whale; the whale studying Lindbergh with its tiny eyes would have been a sight to delight Darwin...
Governor Jackson made no comment on his Attorney General's letter. Less reticent were E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, Mrs. Grace Altvater, head of the Indianapolis Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, famed Fundamentalist...
Seriously, this announcement should not be passed by lightly without comment. What is to be the future of a college which would sacrifice scholastic reputation for the sake of possessing a highly equipped athletic plant with up-to date facilities? If there is one such college in the United States, in all probability there are two. If universities are to be founded with the purpose of developing into muscle factories, that purpose should be clearly outlined in the charter, and such an institution should not be allowed to carry the name of university...
...Carrie Gloyd married the Rev. David Nation, veteran of the Civil War. In 1901 the Rev. Nation, divorced her on grounds of desertion, cruelty. It had been her custom to sit in the front pew while he was preaching, comment audibly upon his sermon. When she had listened as long as seemed to her sufficient, she would shout out: "That will be about all for today, David!" In 1900 Carrie Nation, began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord...
When President Hopkins made his suggestions they were received unsympathetically by football officials of Princeton, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown, Pittsburgh and Syracuse, Even Harvard was cold. The Yale officials made no comment, but it was intimated that Yale would not oppose a conference of Eastern universities to consider athletic changes. The Dartmouth Athletic Council having come out strongly for such a meeting, there is likely to be a free discussion of the program. It certainly brings "reform" to the front--New York Times...