Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just about to tee off in last Summer's New York championships when a friend rushed, up and told him of Donaldson's laudatory comment. One minute later, he dubbed his drive before a gallery of 150 people. "Boy, was I mortified while walking the 40 feet up to my ball," Rick ruefully admits. Rick has little to say about the possibility of a professional golfing future...
Richard D. MacCann 2G, chairman of the Forum, will introduce President Conant, who will comment on the main speeches...
...persistent Chief European Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger reported, from a "completely reliable source," that Protocol M was a forgery. The British government, which in January had stoutly asserted "[we] believe this document to be genuine," responded to Sulzberger's report with a limp and embarrassed "no comment...
Strovsky's bitter words are a damning comment on that double standard of morality by which large sections of the Western world, especially its intellectuals, have judged the Stalin dictatorship. Many of the same people who, in the 1930s, had been stirred by reports of Nazi concentration camps, refused to face the unpleasant fact that Russia used them too. Now Gliksman, who found himself in a Siberian labor camp after Poland was carved up by Hitler and Stalin, tells the story of that experience with a better chance of attention. The book is an unadorned record of human suffering...
...some undetermined ailment that kept him in & out of the infirmary, he got through Williams College with a record that led Columbia University's famed Philosopher John Dewey to take him on as a teaching assistant. He took a walk with Psychologist William James, remembers just one comment: "I have a brother [Henry] who writes novels, and he used to be a very good writer, too, but since he got lazy and began dictating, his style has become groping and repetitious. I for one am no longer able to read a word he writes...