Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guide has been an institution in the columns of the paper for the last eleven years and has always received wide comment but lacked the permanent value which the new form gives it. Prior to its initial appearance, students were able to gain information concerning their courses only from acquaintances who had previously taken the course or from members of the faculty who were interested in it. The Guide was introduced to give students a student's reaction to the courses which he had taken...
General, did not insist that George V appoint another Australian to replace the present Governor General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed by His Majesty with the indignant comment, "a man whom I have never seen...
Only two politicians in the U. S. last week appeared to be ignorant of the fact that a significant Congressional election was being held in Rhode Island. One was Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, who, when asked to comment on the charge that he had spent millions to influence voters, snorted: "I didn't even know there was an election up there until it was over." The other was President Roosevelt who wanted newshawks to believe that he had never heard of the Rhode Island contest until he saw newspaper headlines the following morning to the effect that...
...world Press dithered because all in one morning last week chunky, pipe-sucking Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin conferred with frail old U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and immediately afterward with hale old Banker J. P. Morgan. Supercilious comment in The City, London's Wall Street, was that most of President Roosevelt's fiscal emissaries to Europe, such as Professor Raymond Moley, have been "neither known nor trusted here" and that if the President now has any proposals to make to His Majesty's Government he could not have done better than to entrust them...
...sardonic member of the Swanee Sisters, she accompanies the action with a running fire of contemptuous comment on Raft, the radio, the Swanee Sisters' sponsor, a socialite party which the Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked...