Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real Republican leaders were more cautious. The day after the President's call, Candidate Tom Dewey refused comment. He had already praised the record of the 80th Congress and declared that a special session would be "a frightful imposition." But the wires from Albany burned with telephone messages to House Majority Leader Charles Halleck in Rensselaer, Ind.; to Speaker Joe Martin at his summer home in Sagamore, Mass.; to other top Republican strategists. When Joe Martin finally spoke up, it was to warn: "There will be plenty of action. Like the boys at Bunker Hill, we'll wait...
...Sartre himself was unavailable for comment...
Final Decree. The Star's first edition would show a new face and format, new talent and backers. Page One, unlike other New York tabs, would change from a poster to a news page. Inside, by Joe Barnes's decree, news and comment would be finally divorced. On the editorial page, run by George Wells, lately of Newsweek, the signed editorials were out; from now on the paper would speak for itself...
...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...
...Years is disappointingly barren of significant comment on Lovett's many important chores. For 16 years he lived at Jane Addams' famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...