Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Mr. Chamberlain had sent the Godesberg Demands, complete with map, to the Czechoslovak Government "without comment." Louder than words spoke the simultaneous mobilization in France of some 1,000,000 men. And the British Home Fleet, in the North Sea, fully provisioned for battle. In London the first few anti-air raid trenches were dug in the parks (see p. 17). Everyone was being "measured for gas masks," and hospitals in the London area were warned to expect, during the first three weeks of war, 30,000 casualties...
...Horace has hitherto declined invitations to visit Continental statesmen with the dry comment: "Thank you, but I am not one of those Englishmen who travel abroad," never dreaming he would have to fly to Berchtesgaden fortnight ago, to Godesberg last week...
...supervisor's efforts to throw them out, and 2) bullying a naive financial agent into signing a check that will solve all their difficulties -lead to scenes of indescribable confusion. The double room which Groucho stubbornly regards as his castle becomes a shambles on which the most effective comment is entirely wordless: when Harpo undertakes to relieve his partner's hunger pangs by bringing in a live turkey he has won at a raffle, the turkey takes one look at its surroundings and flies out of the window...
...result of the recent hurricane, and has stood the test of public opinion with success. Both the fact that the University maintains the oldest experimental forest tract in America, and the fact that men like Ward Shepard '10 comprise its staff, cannot help but bring forth creditable comment from the public...
Simplicity marks the newsreel, which is largely a collection of shots from all parts of the distressed areas of the seaboard. There is no "clever" photography or editorialized comment, yet these advance pictures give a vivid portrayal of last week's disaster...