Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...conference, at week's end, lasted 50 minutes. From it the burly Texan Redhunter emerged still defiant, refusing to comment on the interview. Said Mr. Dies flatly: "I am going to do the job that Congress gave...
...bulletin of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors warmly quoted the report of "Mr. Jesse James, administrator of the Federal Loan Agency," on the number of planes the U. S. had sent to Britain. Federal Loan Administrator (and Secretary of Commerce) Jesse H. Jones could not be reached for comment...
None of the girls had been out on many dates with Princeton men, but still their impression was none too good, "They spend much more money than Harvard men," was the only favorable comment...
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry D. Jay, military R.O.T.C. head here, expressed his enthusiasm over the new course, stating, "I am going to recommend that all R.O.T.C. students who have not had plane trigonometry take this course." Captain George N. Barker, head of the Naval R.O.T.C., could not be reached for comment but it is expected that he will also vigorously support the course...
...Williams lifts his material clear of the stodgy fog banks of Naturalism. To this central ability he brings an impressive set of spare tools. Joyce himself has scarcely greater precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate lyricism, whole chapters become lyric. Dickens without gush, Dreiser without fat, Lardner without cynicism, might combine to approximate it. On his subtle, flexible, nonliterary monotone, Dr. Williams seems to carry...