Word: mentionables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price per canto to about eight cents. Why, some of the titles alone are worth eight cents: "P-s-s-t, Partner, Your Peristalsis Is Showing," "Creepy Time Gal." "Adorable Taxable You." "Reat Mc. Post-Impressionist Daddy," "To Sleep, Perchance to Steam;" and many others, too humorous to mention...
Whaddyamean, "loser"? Bless your young reviewer's heart, the Lanny Budd series of novels is doing fine. They have won the praise of George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, to mention only a few foreigners who have been moved to write letters. Since money talks, in the TIME office as elsewhere, I will mention that the first three volumes have done very well for their author, and that Wide Is the Gate is listed as number five best-seller in the last week's New York Times...
Sirs: Referring to "The First Booby Traps" (TIME, Feb. 1), mention is made of Gabriel Rains, who first experimented with such devices. I have a letter written to my grandfather, William Alexander Carter, who went to Florida with the 2nd Dragoons in 1836. This refers to the Seminole Indians. "Adjutant's Office -3rd Artillery Fort Peyton...
...break since October 1905, in Spanish. Its counterpart in Portuguese has been published every month since 1911. There are no less than six other magazines published in Spanish and exported to Latin America from the United States which have been in existence more than 20 years-not to mention the 65-year-old "Exportador Americano." . . . ALBRO C. GAYLOR New York City...
...Have your baby. . . . Do not mention your condition to the sailor...