Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mention of this brand of cigaret adds nothing to the news value or interest of the story, lays TIME open to criticism of partiality through so-called "free advertising," generally odious to gentlemen of the Fourth Estate...
Please explain why TIME'S editors permitted mention of a particular brand of cigaret in issue of July 3, quoting: "Administrator General Hugh Johnson . . . was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts...
These include metropolitan Los Angeles, Pasadena, Glendale, Santa Monica, Pomona, Riverdale and Long Beach, to mention only...
...capitals of States, could describe certain birds, flowers and fish, could give the names of battles in the Civil War-all things learned in his boyhood. But recent events the banker could date only as before or after his son's death in an automobile accident. At every mention of that personal tragedy the banker "trembles strongly, his face gets red, the tears flow, he perspires and seems to lose control...
...your issue of June 26 you mention the Feast of Corpus Christi at St. Peter's, and in speaking of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI you state: "Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella...