Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French customer's comment: "Madame Göring will be the best-dressed woman in exile...
...hereby wager a $25 war bond that, should you reprint "Why Not?" (TIME, Aug. 14) and invite your readers to vote on its merits, the majority will agree that it is a masterpiece-unequaled by any comment on the subject of Soviet Russia and the shape of things to come under her leadership...
...conference had scarcely begun before his voice was edged with querulousness. A correspondent asked for comment on a New York Times report that he hoped to send a world-security plan to the Senate before the end of the war. The President said that obviously he was not there just to answer silly things printed in the newspapers. They knew perfectly well, he went on, that Mr. Hull had taken everyone into full confidence on those matters. For some moments he answered questions snappily, edgily...
...Formosa "some time within the last three months," reported through a screen of Japanese censorship that "Skinny" Wainwright and other high-ranking officers were confined in a camp apart from other prisoners, got the same rice-and-fish diet as all prisoners of war. Wainwright's only reported comment was that conditions were "as good as can be reasonably expected...
Rascals and Homilies. Out of these characters, plus odds & ends of art comment and lengthy interpolations on issues of politics and society, Aldous Huxley has fashioned one of the most peculiar novels of his career. Two-thirds of Time Must Have a Stop concerns the period-and is written in the sparkling, scathing style-of his famed satirical Point Counter-Point and Antic Hay. The other third presents Author Huxley's latest religious beliefs...