Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armed with the whimsical title "Madame Axel from Greece," the brothers Minsky no doubt felt their battle to be half won, and with characteristic lavishness they have placed another brilliant and scintillating extravaganza before the public. Of Greece or the Grecian damsel aforementioned there is not the slightest mention once the curtain has risen -- but the title is a good one, and it has a flavor all its own. This flavor is heightened by the customary sale during the intermission of artistic booklets ("the raciest, spiciest little novelty we've set at your disposal in a long time, gentlemen...
...such an event were so briefly reported in the U. S. Press, neither readers nor publishers would be satisfied. Yet almost an exact parallel of that tragedy occurred in the Hotel Continental apartment of Premier Gaston Doumergue last week. Mention was limited to a few slender paragraphs in New York newspapers and a close-mouthed silence on the part of French officialdom...
...other picture "Journal of a Crime" might well go without mention. Even the acting of Adolph Menjou cannot relieve the horror of Ruth Chatterton's meaning and groaning. Like an Alexandrine line "it drags its slow length along...
...would mean some 100,000,000 people, we could all dive into the pork barrel with three big cheers and a hip, hip, hooray. Our numbers would be ample to throw the fear of God into a considerable body of chicken-livered Congressmen who become panicky at the mere mention of veterans' votes. The disgusting spectacle of a lobby so powerful that it can override the veto of even President Roosevelt is a thing calculated to incite some kind of action on the part of every right-thinking American. Why does not TIME, who has launched such an excellent...
Dazed, Marshal Cutler put through a transatlantic call to Hanfstaengl's home in Munich. He talked for seven minutes, spent $80. Then, omitting to mention the call, he told newshawks that "Putzy'' had refused the invitation, letter to follow. Said Marshal Cutler: "I wish to make it clear that the appointment of aides at the alumni exercises is made by the chief marshal, who is elected by the directors of the Alumni Association, and not by the university authorities...