Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason why the advocates of the repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces...
...first week of December will see the Cercle play in Boston, at some theatre which has not yet been chosen. There is some comment at present concerning the relative value of a modern or a classic vehicle for the club, but a decision will be made shortly...
...chief speaker at a public meeting to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in Ford Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee. At that time several prominent men will speak against the censorship of plays and books which is at present creating so much comment...
...play . . . glorifies . . . an abject code of morals." With this comment did Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols of Boston recently forbid the Theatre Guild to present Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude in his city. Once again Bostonians applauded or flayed their potent, often-evidenced municipal censorship...
...sales mounted in England the book aroused comment and gossip unusual even for the best bestsellers. Reason: it is a literary mystery. For Henry Handel Richardson is but the nom de plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition...