Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final issue, The American Spectator made its annual "awards" (i. e. honorable mention) for the year's best writing. Sample choices...
...Yale there is no opportunity at Harvard for the study of play-writing. The department gets around this by pointing to a note in the pamphlet on English concentration which says of a composition course, ". . . there will be instruction in play writing for those who desire it." No mention is made of this in the catalogue. What is much more important, no mention of this is made in the courses...
...your issue of Feb. 11, under the heading Russia you start the article "Rich with the smells of all the Russias, poorly but warmly clad Soviet legislators," etc. Glad to see mention made of said smells. . . . The Russian atmosphere is saturated with the most nauseating and depressing smell it has been my nasal experience to have witnessed. During many days there in the spring of 1933, I was unable to find a single bird in the stench-saturated atmosphere and found each breath inhaled sickening...
Struthers Burt was there, and Fannie Hurst, William Rose Benét, Margaret Widdemer, Burton Rascoe, Henry Seidel Canby. Many a guest had won a gold or silver badge or at least honorable mention for a snapshot, drawing or bit of verse published by "St. Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth...
There was scarcely a word in the papers. No one would mention it by telephone or letter, yet everywhere that Germans met last week, behind locked doors where no servants could hear, they talked of nothing else. What had happened to the beautiful Baroness von Berg? Would she be beheaded? Had she already been executed? Was Baron Sosnowski in jail? Had he been sent back to Poland...