Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter . . . from C. H. Armstrong, of Wichita, Kans., which you published in your Oct. 4 issue under the caption "Contented Cats" has attracted widespread and favorable comment in this community.* A friend has ordered our job printer to reproduce it (5,000 copies) and proposes to have it distributed from house to house...
...thing in particular in puzzling the girls. They don't know who is better situated, the WAVES down in Washington with lots of free time and no men, or themselves, with no free time, but men aplenty. Comment from the student body is invited...
...Sothern, one of the smartest comediennes in the business. In part it is due to a crisp script, which manages to lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...
...human underwear, the drastic results of heavy, middle-aged drinking, and the leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands a newspaper to his butler: "I'm through with the paper, Roberts. Take it out and sell it." Other Darrow scenes...
...patients (most of his are women), appears throughout the book. He likes them even though nearly 40 years of listening to troubles have given him such a comprehensive view of human frailty that he can guess many sins a patient is too shy to reveal. Here & there a sharp comment appears: "As I often say to women, the greatest trouble with them as a sex is their pettiness and their inability usually to differentiate what is really important from what is inconsequential...