Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That is a fine portrait of Sportswoman Eleonora Sears which appears in TIME, March 16. It will interest many readers. Long before the World War, Miss Sears was known as a pedestrian champion when visiting friends in California. You did not mention in your article that the aristocratic Miss Sears once hiked alone from the Burlingame Country Club to Hotel Del Monte-over 100 miles-escorted by a motorcade of sport-loving friends. It was a record-breaking hike. During the same season (about 1911) Miss Sears kept up a stable of polo ponies and rode on the polo fields...
...Canal for WPA. ("No board of engineers ever exceeded in ability and in training and in experience this special board of review.") He dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western World...
...reference to the column Milestones, TIME, Feb. 24, I was indeed surprised to find your account so brief as to omit all mention of one of Hiram Percy Maxim's greatest interests: Amateur Radio. Himself the holder of an amateur "ticket" [license], he was the esteemed president of the Amateur's foremost protective interest, the American Radio Relay League. In the hearts of Hams [operators] will he be remembered longest and best...
...that if the Council sought to re-admit Germany to membership in the Council, that would be blackballed by the Bolsheviks. As for the Fascists, there was a sardonic grin last week on the face of Benito Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace and a Vansittart German peace. The august London Times raised its deep voice in harmony with this attitude...
Tews, her mother a pretty Viennese: that H. G. Wells calls her "Tynx"; that for 38 years she was afraid of oysters; that she was thrice proposed to before she was 20; that she was married 14 years but does not mention her husband's name (Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth) or anything else about...