Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 19 issue of TIME there appears mention of the "Chicago "University...
...Public Lands, which is charged with the investigation, it was logical to entrust him with the errand. That it was unfortunate soon became apparent. The importance of his mission overcame him and he returned hinting breathlessly that his findings involved "a name that it would be criminal to mention until further investigation." The name of Warren Gamaliel Harding soon leaked out. The Committee was reviewing the sale in 1923 of President Harding's Marion Star for a surprising price. No bonds traceable to Harry Ford Sinclair were discovered in these records, however. Inquisitor Walsh deplored his young colleague's prematurity...
...look at this draft convention. From the first word to the last there is no mention or allusion to the League of Nations. . . . [This shows a] fixed purpose of boycotting the League and all its works. . . . Article 63 [of the Soviet draft convention] declares that five copies should be deposited in some capital of some country of five continents. This shows imagination, but it is unnecessary to insult the League in this way and has no bearing on general disarmament. Copies can be sent to Geneva as well as to Timbuctoo...
...charitably. Of particular feebleness are the two attempts on pages one twenty-one and two, while "Light Cast on Moving Tragedy" very nearly approaches these in its unworthiness. The rest of the prose is at least up to a satisfactory level, though none of it deserves particular lar mention...
...midst of a fine page decoration. Of these three, perhaps "Place Your Bets" takes the laurel owing to the fine adaptation of decoration to the subject and execution of the verse, which of itself is more than good. But "A Ballade of Spring" deserves further mention for its difficult double refrain and lack of forced rhymes...