Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME APRIL TWENTY FOURTH PAGE FORTY WOMEN DOCTORS MAKE NO MENTION OF WOMANS MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA AT PHILADELPHIA STOP OLDEST INSTITUTION IN THE WORLD FOR THE TRAINING OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS STOP FOUNDED EIGHTEEN FIFTY BY QUAKERS STOP AMONG ITS ELEVEN HUNDRED LIVING GRADUATES ARE WOMEN EMINENT IN MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL FIELDS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD...
...middle class, who find their sex at Radcliffe and Wellesley, and the working classes, grade grubbers. In so far as it is discernible, their attitude seems to be that brewed at the tea tables of Brattle street and Shaler Lane, a prim pursing of the lips at the mention of kidnapping, deb-chasing or codfishing, and a muttered "boys will be boys...
...Faculty reviewer picks up an undergraduate publication called "The Harvard Critic." But this is different. It is not the Faculty that is the target of these critics. No a single member of the Faculty is held up to public contumely and two of the professors even receive honorable mention. Professor Whitehead's latest volume of philosophy is the subject of high praise by one of the editors, and Professor Henderson's course in the history of science is moderately praised by Mr. John Des Passes, which is very high praise indeed...
...mention my having written two operas, i.e. the music. That is more important than my written criticism. I mean to say I have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient. When I can sit in the electrician's kitchen in Rapallo and hear the words (I mean understand which word is which not merely hear a blurr of melodious noise) of Maitland. Marquesita, Ferrari and R. Collignon singing Villon's poems in London I have done...
...amused to read on p. 28 of your April 10 issue about the airplane flight over Mt. Everest. You published the picture of the Maharaja of Nepal and mention how this "wily Mongol above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head." This is a picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River...