Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When it comes to individual "swing" men, why did you fail to mention other idols of the modern musician, such as the Dorsey Brothers, "Miff" Mole, "Red" Nichols, Vic Burton (drums), "Saxey" Mansfield (tenor sax), Joe Venuti (violin), Irving Brodsky (piano) and Dick McDonough (guitar...
...stood up before the du Fonts and the Raskobs not to speak to them but to his party. He spoke not as the statesman of eight years ago but as the New Yorker of 30 years ago in the solecisms of the Lower East Side. Not once did he mention the name of Franklin Roosevelt, but every long word that he twisted his raucous tongue around, every point that he drove home with platitudinous common sense, every uproarious poke at the New Deal invited comparison with the polished plausibility of the Squire of Hyde Park. He made no attempt...
...where the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court last week found one Charles Cranides guilty of breaking the lottery law by spinning a wheel in his cinemansion to determine cash awards. In New Orleans the four major newspapers (Times-Picayune, States, Item and Tribune) recently discontinued theatre advertising containing mention of Bank Night...
When the history of 1914-18 was written, it said plainly that the U. S. went to war because German submarines sank U. S. ships without warning, killing U. S. citizens. Over two years this reason was built up to such a point that President Wilson had only to mention it before Congress to procure a vote of 373-to-50 in the House of Representatives on the declaration of a State...
...made affidavit that she had always lavished love and luxury on her backward daughter, that Ann's lack of education had been her own wilful fault. She had been dismissed from various schools "for various reasons," from one Philadelphia school "because of an incident too scandalous to mention." Always Mother Hewitt had striven to break "certain unfortunate little habits" in Ann. A statement from the attending physician supported her assertion that Ann had been born two months prematurely, weighing only 3 1/2 lb., in the feverish Paris of August 1914, that only exceptional motherly care had kept her alive...