Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Professor Wiener's sneer about the "journalistic status" of certain writers. Journalists must be excused for writing less and less about more and more, otherwise the poor public might lose touch with the profundities of modern research, and not endow the Great Minds with a lifetime (not to mention innumerable vacations and sabbatical years) in which to grow wiser and wiser...
...have heard Harvard's juvenile three centuries mentioned with apology. That is absurd. Three centuries in America look like ten in Europe; beyond a certain point historical foreshortening plays havoc with time, besides which the foundation of a college three hundred years ago in New England was a more creditable achievement than that of an English university six hundred years back. One feels a certain nakedness at first, in the absence of the accepted minutiae,--even of gowns, bicycles and turbans, which contribute to the peculiar flavor of Cambridge life. But then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere...
This column has carefully avoided, for the past few weeks, any mention of Fabian Sebvitsky and his "Grand Orchestra." Time for silence is now over, as patience reaches the limit. It has been rumored that Mr. Sevitsky is a real musician, but thus far this rumor is utterly contradicted by the evidence. Please, Mr. Sevitsky, if your boys can't do it, please refrain from your weekly annihilations of great music...
Referring to Upton Sinclair, why don't you state who brought the charge and who subsequently dropped it? Why do you fail to mention that you got the story out of Upton Sinclair's autobiography, and that you could not have got it anywhere if Upton Sinclair had not told it? I really think that 1 shall have to insist that you shall publish the paragraphs from which you took that story...
...daylight gallery" of the English Book Shop in Manhattan went on exhibition a group of etchings never before shown east of California. Californians remember John Kelly as an advertising man who gave up his job eight years ago, went to Honolulu, won honorable mention at last year's International Exhibit in Los Angeles. A shy Irishman, Kelly and his sculptress wife live year round in Hawaii, prefer natives to tourists. He dislikes exhibiting, does so only when his wife argues him into...