Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the book was published, John S. Sumner of Manhattan, professional moral crusader, had tried but failed to seize and suppress the printing plates. Local newspapers gave this episode routine mention, but most editors chose not to air the alleged love life of Warren Gamaliel Harding and the appeal based thereon. Henry Lewis Mencken touched on it in a distant, rambling article for the Baltimore Sun. The Democratic New York World treated it conventionally as biography, in a book review, with no front page headlines. The New Republic came closest to "featuring" the item. For the rest, there was what...
...inquiry proceeded which, if it found Harry F. Sinclair and his friends guilty of jury tampering, would add six years and $5,000, not to mention public condemnation for rat-in-the-corner tactics, to the list of penalties which Mr. Sinclair has for months & months been trying to evade...
...course there was that little blonde from Cleveland who induced me to forecast Ohio to beat Princeton, but I don't mention that. Nor do I reveal the reasons of state that led me to pick Brown over Dartmouth- though they would surprise...
...have a reputation for being wet because the shortcomings of a few students get into the papers as typical of all students. If two or three college fellows get drunk and cause a fuss, the story can promptly be found in all the newspapers, but no mention is made of the 10,000 or 20,000 students who ostensibly do not drink. The whole country read the other day of the fraternity in a middle-western university that was found to have a still in its basement, but nothing was said of the 400 or 500 colleges in the country...
...considerable second prize; in the two survivals there are no second prizes worthy of the name. Miss Kankakee hushes up her shame at being, so to speak, nosed out by Miss Tulsa; similarly the self-respecting author will never vaunt the fact that he has received honorable mention for November. Both are freeze-out games in the fullest sense. Many come and but one is chosen...