Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the lush cinema magazines of the U. S. and Europe, comment in Chinese prints upon cinema stars is earthy, realistic. One could read in Shanghai last week that Butterfly Wu had been chaffed by her public with such good-humored cries as "You're getting too fat! Marshal Chang wouldn't have you now!" Replying with spirit. Miss Wu chaffed back: "I'm not too fat. Have a look! I'll go on making pictures for at least two more years." In China such a job as Butterfly Wu's is not soft...
...late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth. This week that acid-tongued, political kibitzer, who generally gets credit for most wisecracks uttered in Washington, was put forward by McNaught Syndicate as successor to its late great Will Rogers. Appearing in some 100 newspapers, Alice Longworth's brief daily comment is served hot by telegraph to most subscribers. First sample...
...feeds financial news to 1,300 newspapers. A huge service requiring 25,000 miles of wire for its exclusive use, AP's financial department is headed by able young Claude Jagger. Hearstpapers feature the syndicated optimism of B. (for Bertie) C. (for Charles) Forbes and the more informative comment of Merryle Stanley Rukeyser...
...necessary to be a champion of Roosevelt to deplore such vicious attacks. At best you have produced an editorial which is certain to cause a great amount of comment. At worst you have produced an editorial which I, for one, would be ashamed to see reprinted in any other newspaper as representative of Harvard opinion or of the sort of education which Harvard gives...
...Boldyreff, though refusing to comment on the White House discussion of the A.A.A., upheld the constitutionality of the agricultural program in the face of the Supreme Court decision...