Word: mention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles ("Chic") Sale is a vaudeville entertainer. The Specialist is one of his monologs, usually reserved by him for stag gatherings. Printed privately several months ago, circulated quietly (chiefly at newsstands), it has achieved wide popularity among people not squeamish at the mention of a "privy" or "backhouse." The speaker is a carpenter who specialized in privy construction, became thereat the champion of Sangamon County. He gives full details of the best design and procedure, with reasons...
...return all his Wartime profits to the government; that he had supposed scruples against accepting War profits. The reporter wrote the Secretary of the Treasury, and was informed that "the Treasury records do not show the receipt of any such donation." The incident is glossed over. There is no mention of other scandals...
...original subscribers to TIME?the inimitable. As such, I am especially interested in your aeronautical columns. While I am not seeking any gratuitous publicity for our city, I would like to mention the fact that recently Wilkes-Barre officially opened an airport which may truthfully be called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With...
...America was laughing at us because Queen Marie during her visit to the United States forgot to mention that she never paid her motoring bill. In America the Queen's photographs were used to boost toilet creams and perfumes. Even her private diary was taken from a drawer in a dressing table by an American dancing girl and published...
...Whether Brazilian editors knew it or not. Miss Brazil was but one of many Manhattan arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press...