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Word: commenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dempsey's championship days are over;" was Maloney's comment," he himself hasn't decided whether or not he will start training in earnest for an opportunity to meet Tunney again. I think he would be best off if he gave up the attempt. Even if he does take it up seriously I feel sure he will be beaten before he ever gets a chance at Tunney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modesty Essential in Pugilist, Maloney Finds--South Boston's Favorite Son Can't See How Gene Can Escape Him | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

Perhaps the most interesting of these books is a first edition of Milton's minor poems. Before the title page there is engraving of the author done by W. Marshall, Milton, evidently disliking the picture wrote a Greek comment under the picture, which Marshall, ignorant of Greek and believing the comment to be complimentary, caused to be engraved on the plate. Milton's comment, translated, follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE EDITIONS OF MILTONIA ARE SHOWN AT TREASURE ROOM | 3/29/1927 | See Source »

Other colleges-Harvard, Williams, Princeton, Rutgers, Yale, Notre Dame-were chary of comment, wanted to think it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Profound Problems | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...most alarming thing about the incident is the apathy with which it has been received. The New York Tribune was one of the few Republican papers to comment on Haines' return to grace. It stated quite baldly that the President had to make the choice between incompetence and the loss of support of the Anti-Saloon League. He chose incompetence. Possible votes twenty months from now, then, are of more importance than present and effective administration of government. And no one seems to care a great deal perhaps because no one will cavil at ineffective dry administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTES VERSUS GOVERNMENT | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...wanton manner. But the Post's Fashion Editor or Editress or what you have says that "Radcliffe girls have no incentive to dress smartly, since Harvard men insist on being the most slovenly and 'un-pressed' college men in the country." This bit of libel received intelligent and succinct comment from two of the Radcliffe seniors who, after perusing the vile sheet, were heard to have the following dialogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

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