Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Though announced as a new novel and with no mention of the previous copyright, The Sea-Hawk is really a reprint of one of Sabatini's first novels. For that very reason, however, it is much better than his later and more successful but less brilliantly written romances. Both in style and color The Sea-Hawk continues the best traditions of the historical romance written frankly for pleasure and excitement. Sabatini is not at all "the modern Dumas" as some critics insist on calling him. He doesn't write in the grand manner of the great Frenchman...
Will Rogers: " At the annual dinner of the Society of Arts and Sciences in Manhattan I was unanimously hailed as the phenomenal humorist of the day. The editors of Who's Who mention three William Rogers-a cartoonist, a manufacturer, a clergyman. They must have forgotten the phenomenal humorist...
...unanimously adopted a unanimous report of a faculty committee advising against any form of racial or religious discrimination. And the press is unanimous in hailing that decision as "a victory for free thought," a triumph of tolerance,? and, incidentally, a sound reproof to President Lowell for daring to mention the race problem in the first place. There is a great deal of editorial gesturing over "the democracy of letters" and "the old Harvard tradition of liberalism" and everyone from editor-in-chief to proofreader professes to be exceedingly relieved...
Barnum's real business was publicity. His code was: " Just mention my name." He always gave public thanks to " blackmailers " for the notoriety they afforded him. Law suits and newspaper editors were his " go-getters." If he was accused of " faking" live whales out of India rubber, or of labeling a mere man "The Bearded Lady"?that too brought people to his museum...
...Broun's discovery that education gets too little mention in the press...