Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just don't sing "I'll be home for Christmas" in front of Millsaps College's one man team Bill Stark. "Ah don't know why they don't move Harvard down South so ah kin go home, too," was Stark's latest comment. Kirby "Tha's what ah any, too." Pickle has shown more than an eating interest in salted pretzels lately. He is joined by the muscley T.C.U. guard, H.B. Thomas, in his consumption. Is it the salt or the pretezls of just the idea, fellas...
...Christmas holiday at most of the local girls' schools is a bit prolonged, if we may be so bold as to comment, "Geezie" (as our dear roomie puts it), they have to be in by 12 when they're here, now they leave for a month--what are we going to do for--dates...
Tallulah Bankhead, husky, loud-spoken actress who played the lead (1939) in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, took umbrage at Playwright Hellman's comment in Moscow: "An actor doesn't make much difference to the play" (TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright...
This recent observation by Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier drew editorial comment from two widely disparate sources last week. The New York Herald Tribune cheerfully declared that at least an Indian President would have dignity, a sly and refreshing humor. Wrote Charles Round Low Cloud, longtime (since 1919) conductor of "The Indian News" column in the Black River Falls (Wis.) Banner-Journal: "Yes. It would take a good thinking man because some man you will think always a good fellow everywhere...
...usual comment on the Stettinius appointment was that "Franklin Roosevelt will continue to be Secretary of State." Even so, the old State Department would never seem the same, for which citizens could be thankful. Ed Stettinius had begun with a bang (see above). When the smoke cleared, the U.S. would see new faces in high places. And in its new Secretary, the State Department had a man who had a powerful resolution to do well. Ed Stettinius is not only friendly, energetic and loyal, but he has still another valuable trait, which was rooted in the days when...