Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the best example is birth control, though tomorrow it will be something else. At first the very mention of birth control was tabu. It violated the convention of secrecy shrouding all matters of sex and reproduction since time immemorial. I don't know that any one died from the shock; but emotional disturbance was common enough, and quite real. Most of us have passed beyond this stage today. In Massachusetts recently a candidate was defeated because the opposition called him a sexagenarian; but this, I take it, is exceptional. The idea of children by choice instead of chance...
...ticket to the closing performance of the play. The box office line formed 18 hours before the first tickets were to be placed on sale. There was, moreover, an unusually distinguished first night audience which included, besides editors, high court officials, and educators too numerous to mention, Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes, Curtis, and Howell...
...ways." Critic Olga Samaroff of the Post compared the symphony to a gargantuan bull-fiddle that a medieval potentate had created-an instrument requiring a team of asses for transportation, a squad of musicians for performance, a thing distinguished only by freakiness. The stately Times disdainfully neglected to mention the concert in its critical column at all, rating it simply a news story, another sensational sideshow of the arts. The sophisticates or neo-sophisticates of Manhattan went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude was one of puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this...
...cavil at trifles! After the first five minutes of your visit to fairyland, Iolanthe and her sisters will have captivated you completely, and you will find that you have gone back at least ten years. And inevitably you will join the ranks of those who sigh at the mention of either play and chortle "Oh, yes, the march of the Peers," or "When a coster leaves off beating up his mother...
...Official White House Spokesman did not mention it last week, but doubtless the President and Mrs. Coolidge heard about it-the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie...