Word: commend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administered last rites and said with a wry smile, "I am not afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife I love her dearly and ask pardon for all I have done. I commend myself to the Russian peasantry! Ah Russia, Russia my fatherland...
...toward but did not embrace the candidacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Crusaders declared: "Our position is now, as always, to support only those candidates for office, regardless of party affiliations, who favor the principles for which we stand. . . . The Democratic party has met the issue squarely and we commend them for their stand. The Republican party has offered a plank which is, as yet, undefined. We call upon the President, as the nominee of his party, to state clearly and plainly where he stands on this all-important question-whether for or against the repeal of the 18th Amendment...
With considerable surprise and much gratification I read of your purchase of the control of the Architectural Forum. For the five years that I have been practicing architecture (and reading TIME), the Forum has proved the most valuable magazine of the half dozen available. I commend your choice...
Shopworn (Columbia) escapes the danger, in which its plot places it, of being too accurately titled. Reserve in the directing and natural, finished acting, commend it to above-the-average cinemaddicts. Pop Lane and his daughter Kitty (Barbara Stanwyck) live in a construction camp. As pop is dying from injuries received in a dynamite blast, he warns his daughter that life is '"tough," tells her always to "take it on the chin." Kitty spends the remainder of the picture having a good time doing so. She moves from construction camp to college campus, waits on table...
...from a conservative Republican President. From a religious, sectional, and political point of view, it seemed that President Hoover, by naming Cardozo would be sacrificing a great deal to the national interest. As there has been little reason to expect subtlety from President Hoover, the first impulse is to commend him for his altruism...