Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strongbox at Fort Knox, Ky. was distinguished-looking President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp., leader of the U. S. delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture of Their Majesties, crowned and in full regalia, is President Watson's signed editorial "Service...
...regard to the so-called "duel" at the Los Angeles Junior College [TIME, May 31], you must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape...
...your Miscellany Column (TIME, April 5), you mention that . . . the Midwest Hotel Show could hit upon no proper expedient to substitute for the name "Hors d'oeuvres." I hereby submit . . . the name "Offrecords," a name which intrigues my customers very much...
...continuously exciting till 1919, when she went to Washington as a Senator's wife (Rep., N. H.) and the mother of three sons. In spite of the handicaps of ill health, a small apartment, not much money, few friends and "a husband who groaned at the mere mention of giving or going to a party," Mrs. Keyes was soon having as much fun as she could stand. "It was not infrequent for me to pledge myself for luncheon engagements 20 days in succession and seven weeks in advance; to pour tea at several different receptions in the course...
Notes on the cinema would, however, include some mention of the bit part played by Jerome Cowan. As Arthur Miller, friend of both the principals, he keeps the fire hot and the plot going by conclusively convincing the world that Petrov, the great ballet artist, and Linda Keene, dancer and blues singer, are married, though in reality they are not; that is, not until the eighth reel...