Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanted. Out in Vancouver a group of high-ranking Army officers (three of them brigadiers), in an unprecedented breach of the King's regulations, had risked court-martial by telling reporters: the voluntary enlistments simply will network. In Europe General Dwight Eisenhower, asked to comment on the Canadian manpower famine, had replied that there was a job for every man available...
Charlie gets away with a candid vein of comment which is unprecedented in radio. Via a small-boy character (which helps), Bergen manages a titillating form of malice-without-malice. To judge by his audiences, it is all hugely satisfying to the U.S. public. Charlie called Gossipist Louella Parsons an "old blabbermouth," while confiding in an aside that "everything will be all over town tomorrow." He referred to Emily Post as "a vulture for culture" and dismissed her with: "It's been a charming evening. By the way, Miss Emily, you don't have a toothpick...
Newman sent his book to George Bernard Shaw, got back this comment: "It would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement...
...Sample comment: British slums are due not only to the "industrial revolution but also to the inefficiency of the Englishwoman as a housekeeper...
...than most people can take. But when Army psychiatrists followed in the wake of Joe & friends, he says they reported: "The mental condition of our boys [is] 71% improved." Noel's Days. Suave, mauve Noel Coward also sang till his pipes cracked, but he found ample time to comment on life in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Bits of Middle East Diary have the peculiar flavor of "My Day" ("Today I drove into Spain . . . and lunched out-of-doors at a little inn called Miraflores...