Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject and the diversity of the views expressed at the meeting, Messrs. Bernstein and Fels have done a fairly creditable job. The chief criticism to make of their report in the confusing way in which the two writers keep shifting back and forth between straight narrative and editorial comment, so that the reader never knows when to expect the words of Sweezy, Harris, or Gilbert, and when mere back-seat driving by the rapporteurs...
Bingham Withholds Comment...
...Student Council report, but rather to provide the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports with the general consensus of student feeling. The Regulation Committee meets on May 1 to decide the fate of the plan, and until then William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will withhold official comment on the subject...
...Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun "is a genial philosopher who declines to take himself too seriously...
...Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies. On the other hand, Columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen (who heave many a mean brick, but rarely at Mr. Ickes) "write a lively and on the whole interesting column of dependable news and legitimate comment...