Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike her male contemporaries, Harriette uses subtlety, tries to mention her merchandise by name as rarely as possible. To revive Confessin', she provided min eral water for one bandleader's ulcers, an infra-red lamp for another's arthritis. For Mrs. Tommy Dorsey she managed to find $210 worth of silk stockings. Harriette has a reasonable explanation for the fact that most wives do not object to her overt cultivation of their bandleader husbands. She says: "I am the only virgin in the music business. . . . I go out with the fellows, drink with them...
...Mayor, His Testimony. Witness Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who enthusiastically fell in with the Committee's desire to have a look at Goldberg, had frothed on the stand at the mention of Goldberg and Surplus Liquidators, Inc. Reading from a report, the Mayor declared that, as an auctioneer, Goldberg was "unethical, tyrannical and unfair . . . and to say the least stupid and arrogant." He was also, grimaced The Hat, a distributor of toilet seats. To punctuate his testimony, Witness LaGuardia had shrilly mimicked an auctioneer's babble, yelling an occasional, gleeful "sold!" But Auctioneer Goldberg, who heard all this...
...Three's announcement did not mention the Pacific war, did not suggest that a Soviet declaration of war against Japan had been discussed...
Your article "Portrait of a Molecule" (TIME, Jan. 22) stirred me profoundly. You mention the fact that the shape of the molecule of hexamethylbenzene, magnified 100,000,000 times, corresponds to the shape of its commonly used chemical formula...
...State Department was obviously suffering from a Mrs. Grundy complex, afraid to mention or to face the facts of diplomatic life, hopeful that an unctuous phrase would serve as a substitute for making sense...