Word: comments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston released no comment on the incident but recalled the lamented case of the House football player who fell out of bed early one morning and fractured...
Candidates Steven O. Saxe and Richard A. Van Douren, who also ran close to the top eight, concurred with Brockway's demand for a re-vote. But Student Council President Edric A. Weld Jr. '46 definitely ruled out an election before vacation, while declining to make any comment on the possibility of a January ballot until he had checked with the committee in charge of Monday's voting...
Even as he uttered this priceless comment, disorder was dying down. For 36 hours, at week's end, not a single riot or act of sabotage was reported anywhere. The Reds seemed to be licking their wounds...
...often make their points through cartoonists who are real caricaturists: alongside the artful sharpshooting of David Low, Strube, Vicky, Illingworth and even the Daily Worker's "Gabriel," much U.S. political cartooning seems as subtle as a paleolithic sledge hammer. London's newspapers and weekly journals alike print comment and criticism more literate and provocative than in most of the U.S. press. And the Sundays, led by the urbane, open-minded Observer and Lord Kernsley's Sunday Times, run no funnies but offer an influential, once-a-week type of commentary that is unknown...
...newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. . . . At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply [of news] is not tainted. . . . Comment is free, but facts are sacred. . . . Comment also is justly subject to a self-imposed restraint. It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair. This is an ideal. . . . We can but try, ask pardon for shortcomings, and there leave the matter...