Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a great point of the necessity of keeping the Army out of civilian politics, of shushing an officer who steps across the line. With equal vehemence anti-New Dealers accused the Roosevelt Administration of being unable to take criticism, of exhibiting a vengeful spirit against General Hagood. Bitterest comment along this line came from Cartoonist Jay ("Ding") Darling, who lately retired from the New Deal as the disillusioned Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey. For the New York Herald Tribune syndicate he drew a picture entitled "The New Deal Administration Welcomes Constructive Criticism," and below, "X marks...
...late, great Emperor Meiji for opening up the Empire, mechanizing it and making Japan a Great Power. The last of the Genro is 86-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, outwardly a very gentle old man who asks thoughtful questions of the greatest living Japanese and never makes any comment or suggestions himself except to the Son of Heaven...
...Kansas City, Cinemactress West's Manager James Timony was asked to comment on her current bickering with Paramount about her contract. Said he: "Lubitsch thought in his Hitler way he could push her around. ... In the end she pushed him around. . . . After all. she was in the show business before he thought of being. . . ." On his way to Europe for a honeymoon. Director Ernst Lubitsch replied as impudently as possible: "Try to push her around? . . . She's much too heavy. ... Of course she was in show business before I was. She's older than I am." Director...
...moon to find. At their worst, they are poor imitations of he-hacks; at their best they are in a class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept all critical hats off. The Thinking Reed, in spite of its tasteless title, immediately took...
...Morley & Co., with their "Morley Dishrag Shirt," were assisted by the Sovereign Salesman with the comment: "Interesting! Excellent for the South of France...