Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark memories of the past. His wife, Miriam, combines the pleasant foibles of satyriasis and astrology, while Janet, her daughter, is a nympholept. Hugh, Pride's secretary and Miriam's lover, and Sally, the West African negress, addicted to voo-doo, complete this attractive menage. But we should mention Tod, the giant police-dog, whose essentially surly nature contributes materially to the plot. The advent of Oscar, the musician,--who tells the story,--with a set of brand-new and, comparatively, healthy passions, precipitates matters. Things move from bad to worse, and the climax is reached with a Saturnalia...
...even Harvard, P.D. Haughton, and Charlie Buell come in for some mention...
Besides this, the publishers "acknowledge with profound gratitude the aid of Messrs. Aesop, Wm. Howe, Rob't Herrick, Poor Robin, Chas. Warner, Ben Jonson, Plato, and Shakespeare "to mention but a few of the post mortuous contributions to this very delightful, very helpful book...
...want to take this opportunity to thank an anonymous donor for a hand some bottle of what is labeled Halg and Halg. The mere mention of my having a cold elicited this offer of what the giver assures me is an effective remedy. My cold has long since gone but nevertheless I am very grateful for the antidote. As a matter of fact the bottle is here on the table as I write and occasionally I take a sip, in order that I may establish a sort of personal relation with my generous unknown friend. Whoever you are and wherever...
...McAndrew's "insubordination" was offered. Frederick Franklin Schrader of Manhattan, onetime associate editor of the War-time pro-German magazine The Fatherland and now editor of The Progressive, testified as had many another, that the British were fouling the minds of U. S. school children. He did not mention Superintendent McAndrew at all. After him went a Chicago school teacher, Rosalie Didier, to exclaim: "To read that Washington was a rebel was to me a desecration and to learn that the Boston Tea Party was vandalism made me feel that Schlesinger* should be filling a cell in a Federal...