Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in a red brick house on a Washington hilltop a man strove to out-midge the midge in public unimportance. He wanted to hush all mention of his name. The only shadow he wanted to cast was his own wavering outline against the library wall opposite the open fire...
...story of these two gentlemen exists solely by reason of the excessive sleuthly caution of Sleuth Evans of the Truth and Justice Private Enquiry Co., New York. Having smartly overheard the man with the scar mention to the steamship agent his cabin number, he smartly withdrew, lest he appear to be what he was, a sleuth. By his very caution he missed the fact that cabin number 136 was being surrendered, not engaged...
...careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into the White House than...
Continued Correspondent Haas: "This young lieutenant . . . whose name we shall not mention ... we shall call him Brownlee, was stationed at a little town called San Rafael del Norte, wherein the wife of Sandino* was employed by the Government as a telegraph operator in the hope that she might give some valuable information as to the whereabouts of her husband...
There is very little acting, it being mostly a matter of getting lines off. For this reason the only people deserving of mention are Mr. Jessel upon whom most of the play depends and Clara Langsner as his mother, who does more than just go through the paces...