Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank of England's financial dictatorship extended to private deals of the Boots type. And since the Bank's tacit consent had already been given they fumed at this change of opinion. Said one angry editor: "Philip Hill might be expected to receive congratulations and possibly even mention in the next honors list for bringing a great British company back to British control. But instead the Treasury has selected its largest club to knock him on the head...
Naturally, with the yen off gold, boundless State spending has already given Japan the fillip of an "inflation boom" (TIME, Jan. 2). When Japanese bankers mention the inevitable crash to Lieut.-General Araki, or indeed when any fiscal topic is broached to the War Minister, he says quietly, "That is not in my line...
...curious that "The Case for Tragedy" does not once mention either of the modern playwrights who might he considered tragic dramatists of serious stature: Tchekor and Synge. It is curious and unfortunate, for Tchekor at least would have given some support to Mr. Harris' thesis. But the work of both of them might have suggested that the possibility of tragic drama today is a problem for the isolated dramatist to solve in creation, not for the literary critic with a special theory to plead...
...attack. This is impossible in course work, from the mess of facts that must be crammed . . . . Chance to do experimental work that is individually appealing, and to learn self-criticism from thinking it over . . . . The pace is individual, and extra time can be put on individual difficulties . . . No mention of undefined "benefits" from "contacts," or "attitudes of mind," esteemed by hyper-extroverts...
...CRIMSON admits that the Lampoon extra sent to the stadium immediately after the game last Saturday was a clever parody. But it is just such trivial breaches of common sense, not to mention tact, which make the spirit of the Harvard-Princeton game that of a prize flight.--Tuesday, November...