Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff policies stated by Messrs. Cox and Hull several Continental delegates, notably M. Bonnet, flew home to their capitals. Meanwhile the dollar lost some four cents more of its value, dropped to the equivalent of 77? gold. Rumors that this decline might jar loose the stabilized franc, plus London comment that the U. S. tariff proposals offered little more than pious hopes, plunged Conference journalists into such gloom that Prime Minister MacDonald decided to go among them radiating Scotch cheer...
...readers of Without Music should be expected to echo the comment of Robert Benchley in his introduction: ". . . It makes me feel better about having laughed so loud at Dwight Fiske in night clubs. I always have had a suspicion that I was drunk. Now I know that I was merely appreciative...
...mere adventure story by a long shot, Anthony Adverse is packed full of shrewd comment, tart gossip, homely saws. Thus Carlo Cibo, Havana epicurean, on young man's estate: "My God! . . . did you ever think what a terrible mess a young man really is? I mean a youth. That is - a kind of portable apparatus or attachment to three troublesome globes, one who has just stopped being a mad boy and has not yet been scared into being a decent man. One feels profoundly sorry for him. The only peace he can get is for a few hours after...
This is a dissertation on Mr. George Arliss. Several years ago George Jean Nathan said a last word, almost an epitaph, over Mr. George Arliss. Nathan had just seen the celebrated actor in a famous part, and he jotted for his journal the simple comment that Mr. George Arliss splendidly portrayed Hamlet as Mr. George Arliss. That is all that need be said of "The Working Man" now playing at the University Theatre. It is a typical Arliss play, about a self-made old gentleman who still holds his own in the world and proves to his worthy whippersnapper heir...
...Morgan paid such taxes in England but England has no capital gains and losses tax. If the U. S. had no such tax the Morgan partners would have paid a lot less than $11.000,000 taxes for 1929-the tax has worked both ways. Comment by Senator Glass: The fault is with...