Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual guess at the figures. Certainly the man is a prodigious veteran. He has been singing year in and year out here in America for a vast stretch. It is related that he sang the tenor role in the first American performance of La Boheme. Of course, you may mention the name of Battistini. This prodigious baritone is well past 70, and still sings regularly all over Europe. Many critics say that ten years ago, when he was 60, he was the world's greatest baritone, with a prodigiously fine voice, an exquisite and distinguished style and a personal...
Taylor Holmes deserves mention for his pleasant portrayal of the guardian. So do James Dyrentforth and Theodore Westman, Jr., who played the parts of two collegians ostensibly from Yale in a way to delight the hearts of all honest Harvard...
...weeks ago one train, by its speed, created a short circuit and an ensuing riot of three thousand; while but a short time before another train speeded its wheels off and forced the passengers to hoist themselves up for air by ladder. In the Londoners' challenge there is no mention of the comparative velocities of London and New York cab horses. The only possible explanation of this omission is that the London cab horse is so glaringly inferior that no amount of effrontery could put him in a class with those swift American ponies which coast along the curbing...
...establishing of a permanent court of international justice. Among those signing the petition was President Ernest Martin Hopkins, Trustee John M. Gile, and the chairmen of practically all the departments, including a near unanimity in the departments of political science and international law, economics, philosophy, and history, to mention only some of the social sciences which deal directly with the subject...
Alexander Woollcott: " Barton . . . you should mention him in the great company of Nijinski and Charles Chaplin...