Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Statler opened with the flourishing of commercial trumpets and hymns from the Park Square realtors, there was prevalent a feeling that at last Boston had been recognized and that it no longer need bow its head in shame at the mention of hostelries. Now its pomp has increased, for it may flaunt a Ritz-Carlton in the fact of those who doubt its metropolitan savoir-faire...
World Wheat Pool Conference. As so often happens to movements of profound significance and wide import, the world conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
...curiosity of anyone who has followed recent literary reviews should be excited by the mere mention of the name, Paul Valery. This man has been compared to Baudelaire, to Pascal, even, if I remember rightly, to Plato. Such raptuous enthusiasm, issuing from eminent and sober critics, arouses in one the intense desire to examine Valery himself in the hope that there may be a slight bit of justification for this holiday from professional reserve...
Last week, for the first time in many a month, the "Spokesman" received no mention in conference reports. Though laymen failed to note his demise, Democratic editors and politicians cheered his death, danced on his grave. Said the New York Times: "President Coolidge ... did well to get rid of him." Said the New York World: "The deceased lived a short life but a merry one." Said Senator Norris of Nebraska, nominal Republican: "The Bolsheviks got him." Three months ago Senator Reed of Missouri had said: "Let us have done with this sham...
Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...