Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fabricius-Little, Brown ($3). Looking back on the earlier 1930's, what would some Mark Sullivan of the future pick as typical novels of that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash...
...your article on Miss Maribel Vinson, the celebrated skater [TIME, Dec. 23], you give a long list of her extracurricular activities while at Radcliffe, but you fail to mention that in spite of all her outside interests she received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts With Distinction in the Romance Languages. This shows, it seems to me, that she uses her head as well as her legs...
...yellow journalism at its worst. As every alert editor already knew, the pictures were taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks on the New Deal and aliens. Wrote he in part: "It would certainly seem that a government which is so liberal, not to say wasteful, in spending the people...
...couldn't even eliminate the tendency to go to sleep in church. And there's no family under the sun that's had twelve generations of careful breeding. Or even five generations. Take the proudest family in the world and they'd be ashamed to mention the occupations of all 32 of their great-great-great-great-grandfathers. That is, if they knew them. But they don't know them, because they've paid attention only to the particular lines of descent that had the money and the prestige. And 99 times...
...House floor. Similar preferential position awaits the Bonus in the Senate, as the result of an Administration deal with Bonuseers on the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week it was reported that the Legion and the VFW. having agreed to get behind a single bill with no mention of money-raising methods, had also won Representative Patman over to their view point. But no matter which way Bonuseer Patman twists, observers agreed that with elections only a few months distant a Bonus bill satisfactory to the veterans will be rushed through Congress with enough votes to carry it over...