Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt small. Newswoman Jane Grant made the Puppet Emperor feel big by interviewing him, with utmost reverence, for the New York Times. She backed out of His Majesty's presence and rushed off to cable: "The Emperor's face is studious and interesting and very expressive. At mention of any subject outside routine, his face lighted, his features were suddenly alive and his eyes were seen to be glowing with interest even behind his darkened glasses." Next evening the hollow-eyed Manchu puppet who lives with a small Manchu Court at Hsinking, completely surrounded by Japanese soldiers...
Rich, imperious and never a man to feign false modesty, Cardinal O'Connell is discreet in print. He tells how. a poor boy of eleven, he worked for one morning in a Lowell cotton mill, but he fails to mention his present opposition to the Child Labor Amendment. Describing the conclaves for elections of Popes in 1914 and 1922, for both of which he arrived in Rome too late to vote, the rugged Cardinal does not set down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal...
...your columns you were careful to mention that ''Conductor Stock prides himself on his restraint. His men have never seen him lose his temper or break a baton." Until the Festival's fourth concert you may have been undisputed on this point, but at that performance, on Friday evening, May 11, the untainted record of the German bandmaster's son was spoiled. It was while Lucrczia Bori was singing Debussy's "Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from...
Only Finland has paid her debt in full to date. Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Italy. Latvia and Lithuania have made token payments. The rest have defaulted. No mention did the President make of the Johnson Act which forbids all future public or private loans to defaulting nations. But in Washington early this week British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay sent the State Department a note announcing that, because the Johnson Act invalidates token payments, Great Britain would pay not another farthing "until it becomes possible to discuss an ultimate settlement of the intergovernmental war debts with a reasonable prospect of agreement." Same...
What Columnist Lore, Editor Watson, Columnist Thomas and Socialist Clark did not know, or deliberately failed to mention, was that the explosive shell advertisement had appeared in American Machinist just once-on May 6, 1915. Its publication then caused a great popular outcry which aroused the U. S. State Department and caused Secretary of Commerce Redfield to deal a stinging rebuke to American Machinist. Few months ago it was reprinted, in its true historical seating, in the book Merchants of Death by Engelbrecht & Hanighen (TIME...