Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the ladies might obtain the desired notoriety by informing the country's press of their precedence to Harvard's house plan. But in doing this, it might be well for them to mention incidentally that Oxford happened to adopt a system something like the house plan in the fourteenth century...
...issue of TIME, there is a brief comment on the 30th annual report issued by the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc. in which comment mention is made of the President of the Society being no less eminent a Jew than Percy Straus, the president of Macy...
...Chicago socialites, long and loudly applauded her, demanded and got five encores. Another feature was the first performance of Outward Bound, Swift-prize-winning chorus composed by Franz Bornschein to a poem by Catherine Parmenter. Composer Bornschein, no Swift employe, has three times won the annual $100 prize. Honorable mention this year was awarded to Abram Moses of Baltimore and Gustav Mehner of Grove City...
...horrible confession, that. And one--which even a hardened offender like the Vagabond would scarcely mention in private did his conscious not bind him to expose the false teachings of a nefarious publication. In its day this Mount Auburn Street magazine has caused many a scandal for one reason or another, but teaching erroneous history is something new. Go to your barber's and turn to page 52 of the current number of the Lampoon. What do you find insinuated there? That Will, who as everyone knows rests in Stratford-on-Avon, is buried in the Abbey...
...stage play acted by a fair stock company. Early in its proceedings you realize with a shock that it was this play that brought the useful word "acclimatized" into the current argot. There is also, as the young Englishman, new to Africa, proceeds toward moral degeneration, frequent mention of "damp rot." Its novelty is gone, but White Cargo is still an effective piece of theatre, ironic in spite of its loquacity. Best shot: the Englishman whose undoing has been traced being carried out to the ship to be sent home while his successor, doomed for a similar fate, enters, ambitious...