Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the fig-leaf affair that blossomed and burst here some weeks ago, it might be dangerous to mention that the Veterans Theater, delivering the "world premiere" of William Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon" tonight, was thinking of a scene in which scantily-clad souls, awaiting reincarnation, flit around a dimly-lighted stage. Latest reports have it, however, that flesh-colored tights will not be worn. From its name, it may seem that the Veterans Theater, a group newly organized by Jerome Kilty '49, has some affiliation with an old Army or Navy clique. On the contrary...
Getting set on characters, plot and locale, and leaving plenty of elbow room for years of future plotting, was a carefully thought out job. Hero Steve Canyon will look something like an older Terry ("I'll never mention his age") but, says Caniff, there's a difference: "Steve Canyon's been around . . . this guy might have been in love a dozen times." Steve's aviation taxi service covers the globe (slogan: "You furnish the reason, we'll furnish the ride"). Caniff gave his hero a roving job so that he could work...
...contract makes no mention of these students. Could not some provision be made for them? David B. Evans...
...mention of "Harvard" raises mental pictures of Widener, the seven Houses with their individualistic towers, and University Hall fronted by its statute of The Reader. Most Cantabridgians are familiar with the Business School just across the Charles, the Medical School in Boston; and a few old-timers are dimly aware of the whereabouts of the Astronomical Observatory or of the Blue Hills Meteorological Station...
...been before the deadline, not even one extra ticket had been assigned them. And the number of men, particularly in the class of '45 and the class of '46, who have been assigned seats in or teetering on the edge of the end zones are too numerous to mention...