Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that curious journalistic ethic which forbids a newspaper to mention a competitor if it can possibly be avoided, no New York daily except Mr. Hearst's American reported the protest...
They call professionals "pachyderms," but they don't even mention the collegians. College wrestling is definitely not a spectator sport and yet it is one of the greatest participants' sports that is sponsored by the Athletic Association...
...interest among Press and national leaders I have interviewed over Bennett's volta face is amazing. . . . The London Times, always friendly to Bennett, has the briefest possible outline of his speech and obviously regards it as an election measure of little importance. . . . The Manchester Guardian doesn't mention it. ... I told Wickham Steed [scholarly editor emeritus of the London Times'] that Bennett had attacked individualism in business and requested a comment. He replied, laughing, I can't speak on things I don't understand, and I don't understand that...
...independent way. He makes no excuse for his frequent concert appearances. He has a family to support in France: a wife who is his cousin, an 80-year-old mother, four children-Feodor and Milena who paint, Sviatoslav, a pianist, Milka, who is not yet grown. At the mention of his children last week Stravinsky declared: "God be with them, there shall be no more...
...other aspects of the lecture, too, Dr. Drury showed a tendency to lose contact with educational reality. He lauded the spending of money on elaborate school buildings, for example, without mention of the disproportion between these expenditures and the salaries of teachers. Similarly, political control of the public schools was ignored in praise of their "freedom," their "contact with the students' daily life," and their "democracy." Finally, in a discussion of educational problems his concern with the "present-day care-freeness" of students in their dress, with their "carelessness and unwashed-ness" must seem misplaced...