Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest glass and china store, had been awarded a contract for ten dozen service plates, ten dozen dinner plates, ten dozen bread & butter plates, ten dozen coffee cups & saucers, ten dozen teacups & saucers, ten dozen after-dinner coffee cups &saucers, ten dozen bouillon cups & saucers, not to mention oyster plates, oatmeal bowls, ramekins, etc.-1,720 pieces for $9,301.20, delivered at the White House. This, the first full dinner set ordered for the White House since Wilson's day, will be cream-colored Lenox china, with rims of gold, a cobalt blue band bearing 48 stars, roses...
...hand to clear the ground and pull the stumps of controversy were such eminent gentlemen as William Green of the American Federation of Labor, Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers, Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, Harold W. Story of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., not to mention a small army of professors, physicians, health officials and social workers. Some of the conferees were so excited by the prospect of the broad field before them that they wanted to gallop right out and start plowing before the President had determined the distance or direction of the furrows. One such...
Meanwhile Sergeant Honda was put under guard. Home Minister Fumio Goto, responsible for the police of all Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
Urging the faithful to pray for an end of the persecution, the prelates did not forget U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels whom many a Catholic has accused of publicly giving aid and comfort to the Mexican Government (TIME, Oct. 15 et seq.). Omitting specific mention of that aging Methodist, a paragraph in the hierarchy's statement was aimed straight at him: "We cannot but deplore the expressions unwittingly offered, at times, of sympathy with and support of governments and policies which are absolutely at variance with our own American principles. They give color to the boast of the supporters...
...especially surprised upon perusing yesterday morning's CRIMSON to note that there was no mention of one of the most important items of the past day. It seems from the way this year's content reads, that the CRIMSON's policy is not to print the news of the day but to fill four pages of paper with any copy easy to obtain. Whether the news printed is newsworthy or whether it is accurate space to be important...