Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Widely criticized is the appointment of leading industrialists to Government control boards. A cause cèlèbre is the case of Viscount Wolmer, Government Director of Cement, who also draws a $20,000 salary from the cement makers' federation. Lord Wolmer's leading critic has been the Rt. Rev. Ernest Barnes, famed Bishop of Birmingham, who some months ago lost a ?1,600 libel suit over remarks he made about the "cement ring." Last week the unrepentant Bishop stood up in the House of Lords to ask, "Ought a Government officer, sitting in a Government building...
Replying to criticisms that during six months the British neither mined nor fortified Crete's airfields against German attack, Prime Minister Churchill said: "I could give answers to those questions, but I do not propose to discuss tactics here." Tart and testy, he suggested that any critic whose mind was focused on the small island of Crete was being very small-minded indeed. Crete, he declared, was "only one part of an important and complicated campaign being fought in the Middle East. To select one particular sector of our widely extended front for Parliamentary debate is a partial, lopsided...
...arms of an ex-doughboy baritone and the hearts of Manhattan theatergoers. Of no small help to her was the catchy score by Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert's successor and equal, and the lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. One of their tunes moved the great Critic Percy Hammond to observe: "One song entitled Who? was attractive enough to indicate that ere the snow falls it will be a pest...
...Critic Hammond was in for a long pestilence. For George Olsen and His Music, then playing at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, picked Who? and made a sensational arrangement of it. Victor transferred the arrangement to a disc, and soon the exciting, eminently singable melody was the U.S.'s hit tune. Today it is a popular "classic" that has outlived both Marilyn Miller and Percy Hammond...
...Halpert called her exhibition What Is Wrong With This Picture?, invited gallery-goers to fill out a questionnaire telling what they thought was wrong with each one. No two gallery-goers agreed. Of the Kuniyoshi one amateur critic wrote: "Feeling of left thigh seems vulgar"; another: "I do not like the position of the figure, nor the color of the flesh...