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Word: comments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson" wishes to extend its informal greetings to all guests and delegates to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on "The Role of Government in the National Economy." It has so far neglected to comment on those who are responsible for the Conference's progress from a vision to an actuality, from a speechless vacuum to a forum of discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREETINGS | 2/26/1937 | See Source »

...Idiot's Delight" is crammed with characters as well as comment. Suffice it to say that every role is brilliantly filled: the raving Communist whom the Italians have to shoot, the fat German scientist who decides to turn from his cancer cures to the invention of a new and deadlier gas, the pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/25/1937 | See Source »

Since Dictator Mussolini has solved the Roman Question, has established friendly relations between the Papacy and the Italian Royal Family, it became sick Pope Pius to make some gracious comment. Declared L'Osservatore Romano, semiofficial Vatican organ: "God has given his sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God's Sign | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...this shrewdly cast and skillfully acted show, Mrs. Murray puts a world of feeling into her comment, as she morosely carries out the tea things: "G -d- sex, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...there any doubt on which side the stentorian logic of Senator Borah would be heard. He said the President's message was too important to comment upon ex tempore, but four days before it was delivered the Independent from Idaho had put himself emphatically on record as opposed to letting the New Deal overrule the Supreme Court except by a Constitutional amendment: "If the people desire that the Federal Government shall have control over their local affairs it is for the people to say so . . . in the manner pointed out by the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: De Senectute | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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