Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearest neighbor, biggest customer, least troublesome friend of the U. S. is Canada. Even so, to win Canada a mention on the front page of U. S. papers, a honeymooning princess has to have her jewels stolen in a Canadian hotel or Canada's Prime Minister has to call officially in Washington. Last week both occurred. The $7,500 jewels stolen from Princess Maria of Bourbon-Sicily, bride of Prince Juan of Spain, held press attention until the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King actually stood on the White House doormat, ate from the White House dishes, slept...
Even a few days before, mention of any such deal had provoked the Ethiopian Foreign Office to blasts of scorn. Last week the feudal Rases of Ethiopia were being sounded by Emperor Haile Selassie's confidential agents. Some of them reacted by demanding that His Majesty at once take the field and fight, as Ethiopian sovereigns always did in days of old. Instead, the Emperor sent Arks of the Covenant to encourage his troops (see p. 16) and talked of making only brief dashes to & from the front...
...even half the story told without mention of the well known Solomonic judgment in which he decided the question to whom the baby, which two harlots claimed, belonged by threatening to "Divide the child in two, and give half to one and half to the other...
When Mari Sandoz. writing under a pseudonym, won honorable mention in the Harper Intercollegiate Short Story Contest in 1925, her aging, domineering father thundered at her: "You know I consider writers and artists the maggots of society!" But on the last day of his life, when he was demented with pain, disease and alcohol, "Old Jules'' Sandoz broke down and urged her to tell the story of his struggles as a homesteader and community builder, in the desolate Running Water region of western Nebraska. Last week his daughter fulfilled his wish with a biography that won the Atlantic...
Winners in the camera class were Frederick M. Miller '37 with his enlargement "Leaves", Gabriel S. Welsman '36 for "The Tower", while honorable mention went to Weisman and to Spencer B. Fulweiler...