Word: mentionables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gang's all here, Round-headed, pop-eyed little birds blinking at you over the edge of the nest, or pulling a worm two ways, snoring squirrels raising their big square incisors as they inhale and puffing heir paraboloid checks as they exhale. Not to mention an irritated and sleepless chipmunk blanketing himself under the tail of one of the above snorers, or a wide-eyed fieldmouse slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling...
...mention of Stalingrad...
...Stalingrad area our troops recaptured positions which they had lost the day before in one district of the town," the High command said in its only mention of infantry activity inside the Volga city...
...most notable accomplishment. This consisted in locating and employing editorial talent, either inexperienced or undeveloped in other publishing jobs, but under Nast's influence later to become nationally famous. There were Bruce Barton, Frank Crowninshield, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Clare Boothe Luce and Edmund Wilson, to mention only a few; while the bright young women copywriters have overflowed into Fifth Avenue's swankiest shops to such an extent as to have definitely influenced the whole school of current department-store advertising...
Impressed by her youthful innocence, our interviewer discreetly steered the conversation away from any mention of the Dirty Thirty and other coarser aspects of Radcliffe life. Subjects discussed were Jack Comeford, Tech dances, and Miss Hagler's cello...