Word: mentionables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention of the word "food" reminded me of my erstwhile hunger, so I called down to the cook and told her to fix up a nice hot plate of forget-me-nots and to be sure and have a prettily-arranged vase of salmon and peas sitting in the very middle of the table. Because I felt that Dorothy May Anderson's father was right: forget-me-nots are more important than food. In fact, it's a wonder nobody has ever thought of them before. They would probably make a ravishingly scrumptious salad. Besides, I never did feature salmon...
...field of vision. The result of such an examination is rather startling. Apart from a section entitled "Indo-Iranian Languages" concerned mainly with Indian classics, there was little to indicate that the world extended beyond the United States, Europe and the extreme west of Asia. There is almost no mention of Asia, Africa, South America, Australia or the islands of the Seven Seas. Their geography, history, literature, philosophy and art received no discoverable attention. There was no attempt to study the government or the economic and social conditions, past or present, of the Far Eastern countries. One small exception...
Your story would have been better yet, I think, if your mention of the Heywood Broun Memorial Award, which Stokes received last year, had explained that this is an annual award of the American Newspaper Guild to the newspaperman who does the best job in the spirit of the founder of our union...
When the Navy announced the sinking of the Hornet last week no mention was made of what she did to the enemy in her death throes. The story, as seen...
...dimout edict, which stressed the necessity for obedience to the Army's regulations and noted "several defects," made no mention of the area blackout that took place before Christmas vacation. Durant, however, stated that, as far as he knew, the test had been near perfect in the University and that he had received no complaints...