Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your comment in the Dec. 12 issue regarding my fellow townsman, Edward McCrossin, contained five counts: name, age, place of accident, nature of accident and quotation. Correct were name and place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks...
Therefore, the meaning of TIME'S comment, "legato has no vibrato," if true, means that the famous politician has no musical feeling to express. The chances, however, are that he did sing with a vibrato which was so subtle as to escape the ear of the critic...
Last week the following were news: Charles Wilbur Miller was not re-elected president of Davison Chemical Co. When the Company issued its statement for the year ended June 30, much comment was caused by the following write-off: "Provision for loss in realization of advances made to president of company and interest thereon-$705, 284.32."† Elected in Mr. Miller's place was Henry E. Treide, executive vice president of the company for a year, a director of Baltimore Trust Co. and of Baltimore Mail Steamship Co., which he helped form...
...spirit of criticism but for the sake of correctness, may I comment on your use of the word "catty-corner" in TIME of Nov. 14: "Sir James [Barrie] lives ... on London's Adelphi Terrace catty-corner from George Bernard Shaw's former home." The proper spelling is "eater-corner" or less properly "cata-corner." The word implies the numeral four as does the word "cater-cousin," fourth cousin
Last September Illinois Life, hard-pressed for cash, borrowed $1,000,000 from the R. F. C. Apart from causing interest because it showed that the R. F. C. was aiding life insurance companies, the loan excited comment because it was made on the condition that new directors be drafted, control removed from the Stevens family...