Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About seven blocks away, at the Tribune Tower, a cop stopped the procession, made it turn about before the effigy could be burned beneath Critic Jewett's windows. Content, the marchers found a city refuse box and ceremoniously stuffed her in. From conventional Critic Jewett there was no comment...
...boiling point. Rare were such fighting words as: "Writers have no base outside the labor movement." Rare were such old battlecries as "proletarian," "class-consciousness." Delegates hurried nervously through their mainly autobiographical speeches, subsided meekly on the chairman's time-signal, as polite fellow delegates rose politely to comment. From Communists, as such, came not a sheepdog's bark...
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Most ominous was Pravda's comment: "Superfluous collective farmers" will be shipped to regions where farm labor is needed. Peasants, who know too well that this means the arid lower Volga, the Siberian Far East where the Soviet Union finds it difficult to tempt settlers by normal means, trembled in their greasy hip boots, wondered if this was the first shot in a new war against the peasants...
Toastmaster of the evening will be Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History. William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will comment on early Harvard trophies, and Charles H. Watkins '09, Reginald Fitz '06, Marshal of the University, and Philip P. Chase '00, lecture and tutor, will speak...