Word: comments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonderful. ∙∙ In Manhattan, Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made his Broadway debut as director and angel of the season's quickest flop: one performance. Critics called Good Neighbor "immensely dull." Said stage-struck Lewis who lost $25,650: "They were right. When you get that universal a comment there is no use fighting...
...DEPARTMENT STATEMENT ANNOUNCING TODAY THAT NEARLY 2,000,000 WOOLEN BLANKETS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY ARE TO BE PURCHASED FROM AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN DRAFTEES CAUSED WASHINGTON OBSERVERS TO COMMENT ON THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THIS ACTION AND RECENT NEWS OF THE SEIZURE BY GERMAN AUTHORITIES OF BLANKETS FROM NORWAY'S CIVILIAN POPULATION TO HELP PROTECT NAZI SOLDIERS FROM THE RUSSIAN WINTER...
...regular Monday noon Parker House luncheon for Boston's football coaches and sports writers the scribes present unanimously voted Dick Harlow the coach of the week, and it wasn't just locally that Harvard's canny mentor was the object of a lot of favorable comment. It is hard to remember a time when any football team has received as much credit for going 60 minutes with out adding to the zero credited it at the opening whistle, as the 1941 edition of the Crimson has for holding the vaunted Navy to a scoreless...
Tobacco and smoking establishments note a certain drop in the volume of business. "Where a follow used to smoke a pack a day, he cuts down to half, or only pays for a $2.50 pipe when he used to get $5 ones," was the comment in a Mass, avenue emporium...
...musical instruments of any vintage, laid aside his books and commuted by subway to the settlement house, where he tutored the Jamacia Negro Mothers' Club in music. During the beginning of the year he spent most of his time playing records to his dusky, matronly pupils, then inviting their comment and criticism. When they had gained some acquaintance of strange instruments, he brought a clavicord, fore-runner of the grand piano, and played music appropriate to the tinkly, 19th-century instrument. By the time the year was out. Pinkham had built up a choral group from his Jamaica Negroes...