Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine, which I have taken for some time, gave me a hearty laugh some weeks ago in your entertaining comment upon the Boston Herald's account of my death. I regretted disappointing many excellent people; but I don't think a man ought to die just to satisfy others; it should be his own private affair...
...able Bertha Krupp, with restrained admiration and affection. Then he would sigh for his oppressed people, adding that Germany nevertheless was trying to forget War hurts, hates, scars. The press quoted him as saying that never again would the Krupp works be used for munitions. Wilmington soon began to comment on this vigorous representative of Germany's youth...
...President sealed up a neat little bale of newspaper clippings telling of deaths from poisoned alcohol and letters of protest which he had received, despatched them to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston without comment...
...independence of France, and so deliberately unjust where he refers to waiting for America to enter the War, and where he criticizes the United States for making a separate treaty of peace with Germany, and yet so pathetic in manifest love of his country, that I prefer not to comment at length...
...about increasing, by Congressional legislation, acreage on Philippine rubber plantations. What do gentlemen read?". . . The Spokesman for the President indicated that the Administration feels favorably inclined toward rubber projects" (TIME, Aug. 16). Gentlemen glance at a Mr. Kellogg headline. ". . . The Spokesman for the Secretary of State can make no comment upon the Mexican situation." There must even be a Spokesman to refuse to comment. Enraged beyond being gentlemen, readers turn to pages where cavort persons who do not hold office. Here, for instance, is a despatch announcing the year-old secret marriage of John Hayes Hammond Jr.: "When confronted...