Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year as a whole can be called, however, the most successful in years and is deserving of comment...
...find slim pickings here. But for stout-hearted oldsters who still swear by convention, old fashions, common sense and straight talk, Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy memories, in feelings of regret and gratitude...
...roared that: "The League cannot consider protests from an insignificant minority!" Not insignificant was 40.1%. From London to Moscow this week European editors referred to "Hitler's heaviest moral setback since the Blood Purge." In Germany, after Danzig returns were known, no German of any prominence would comment. The official Press, obliged to rave at somebody, raved against Danzig's onetime Nazi Premier Dr. Rauschning who appealed last week for anti-Nazi votes. When Danzig Nazi gangsters threatened to beat up Dr. Rauschning and he stepped over the border into Poland the German Official News Agency reported "RATS...
...approached the jump, the Britons set off a "flare" bomb. The smoky explosion failed of its purpose and, instead, caused Golden Miller's $10,000,000 balk which occurred directly in front of the U. S. photographers' cameras. Their sensational pictures, which, the Express misleadingly published without comment, failed to show the cause of the mishap...
...first fence after Valentine's Brook, one of the easiest on the course, last week saw Golden Miller's jockey, Gerry Wilson, fall off. To the crowd this event was a calamity. Next day it became a national scandal when the London Daily Express published, pointedly without comment, a series of pictures of Golden Miller taking the jump perfectly and contradicting Jockey Wilson's explanation that his horse had tried to refuse, lumbered into the top of the fence. Also next day, to show her faith in him. Miss Paget let Jockey Wilson ride Golden Miller again...