Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...currents of janissariat politics swirled around his head. Some of his advisers were now, in private, denying any authorship of the hastily made strategies that had gone awry. Typical was a comment one of them made to a newsman: "We've been getting some bad labor advice somewhere-say, what do you think of John Steelman...
...Curley invited his friends to his home in Jamaica Plain for an informal reception, and they followed him out in a long and noisy motorcade. His comment on the unfortunate happenings in Washington: "It's just one of those things...
Toscanini played the piano, and sang along with her. His only comment was: "Your Italian is very funny"-but next day he signed her up. An NBC official asked Anne what fee she would charge. Said she incredulously, "Am I going to be paid...
None Better. At a press conference in the Parliament Building he stood, arms akimbo, as he gave straightforward answers to newsmen: "I have never compared Allied soldiers with each other. But there were none better than the Canadians." He shied from direct comment on joint U.S.-Canadian defense planning: "You as well as ourselves have a lively concern for the territorial integrity of North America. You wouldn't sit back and see Florida taken any more than we would see one of your provinces taken...
...drudgery and hackwork for other income." Thus they yield quickly when American universities and laboratories beckon. "One can predict the uproar in the press and parliaments of Canada if the United States tried to buy a single Canadian island. . . . But the never-ending loss of scholars passes without comment...