Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight game. The New York Herald Tribune's hulking sports editor Stanley Woodward went to Mickey's show, commented: "The clientele stood around drinking Martinis and Manhattans, talking fights, submitting to radio broadcasts and newsreels, yet, withal, keeping their minds open in case anyone should mention art." Tony Galento, twice licked by a fighter whose first name was Art, managed after 80 minutes' rehearsal to garble the following prepared opinion: "The perspective is distorted and the subordination of technic to composition is indubitably fatuous." The event was an acknowledged knockout for the editors of Click, who arranged...
They had seen the speech before Lord Halifax delivered it only because a friendly newspaperman brought it over for comment. And on that first copy they could not fail to note that Lord Halifax's single mention of Canada's first minister was a blunt "Mr. Mackenzie King...
Navy officials contend that, while the official description of a chaplain's miscellaneous duties ("recreation parties, educational activities, entertainments," etc.) does not mention liquor, they do not think it takes psychic powers to read between the lines. They also lay great stress on the requirement that chaplains "exemplify in its broadest aspects the spirit of tolerance and Christian charity...
...knew all the time that [the] U.S. was equal to greater emergencies than even this war - my intuition told me so. But since Hitler's intuition had fallen into such dis respect I didn't like to mention my source of information...
...help pay these staggering sums, the President asked Congress for higher taxes. But he did not suggest what kinds of taxes should be laid-mention of a sales tax being notably absent. Said he: "Individual incomes will be approximately 40% higher in the calendar year 1944 than in 1941, after payment of all taxes. Corporate profits after taxes are running at an alltime high. . . . Let us face the fact- the failure thus far to enact an adequate fiscal program has aggravated the difficulties of maintaining economic stabilization. . . . The estimates presented in this budget are based on the assumption that...