Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comment was not lost on National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who had long been aware that his candidate was most effective when speaking off the cuff. He renewed an old campaign to get the President to take a long, leisurely transcontinental train trip...
Queen Victoria (following the confidential advice of Canada's Governor General, Sir Edmund Head) chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. The late Goldwin Smith* thought it a poor choice. His snorted comment: "A subarctic village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit." Ottawa (pop. about 160,000) is no longer a village. Neither is it the "Washington of the North" that Sir Wilfrid Laurier hoped that it would be. It is not for want of trying...
...comment has come from the undefeated track team. Most of Coach Mikkola's runners were out of the Stadium cinders yesterday, running through mid-week time trials in their sweat-suits, John Spivak, who pulled up slightly in the 100 last Saturday, is fit again and will run against Dartmouth...
...Food. On the fourth day, Ike relaxed the security sufficiently to allow photographers to take pictures. He posed in a raucous red and black plaid jacket, called it "the Maclke tartan." But he turned down reporters' gambits on politics with a firm: "Not even no comment on no comment." Then, indicating a table being set for lunch, he grinned and cracked: "You can say I'm running for food." Roly-poly George Allen, his spirits dampened by a strict diet, was even more uncommunicative...
...week's end, the curtain clanged down again. Ike had said he would stay at Augusta for another 10 days. Meanwhile, political dopesters buzzed with comment. Was George Allen, who had successfully hitched himself to the coattails of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, getting his grip on Ike's? Had he brought Ike a significant message from Truman? Had the next President of the U.S. been named on the Augusta National Golf Club's 18th green? Or-and this is what set the dopesters' teeth on edge-was it possible that Ike and Georgie had gone...