Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs - In a recent issue of TIME (March 28) you mention a number of American presidents who had "smart sons" .... I think you overlooked President Garfield, father of a college president, a noted architect and a prominent attorney of Cleveland. JEAN PATON...
This will be invaluable for conversational purposes, since you saw it in Boston. Don't fall to mention the best actress-comedienne of them all, Pert Kelton, whose imitations are inimitable. And swear by Marlyn...
Stimulated prospects produced their dimes, encountered a dull but comprehensive survey of theatre censorship in Manhattan-which genteelly referred to the three recently attacked plays but did not mention them by name.* The article made such conclusions as: "It is possible that both sides were right. . . . Perhaps, after all, New York does not care particularly what happens." And then the nice old ladies and other dime spenders read an editorial entitled, "Part Men, Part Goats," by Barton Wood Currie, who came from the New York Evening World to the Country Gentleman and from there in 1920 to edit the Ladies...
...miles from Columbia, S. C., and bring up a son who is now 22. She became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes her: "Well above medium height of her sex; up standing, virile and vivacious. Hair plentiful, rather riotous and red. Eyes greenish-grey. Features large and full of character. The entire woman is instinct with indescribable charm...
...Elmer Gantry'", he said in reply to a question, which the mention of Babbitt naturally brought up, "is not so good a work, to my mind, as Lewis' 'Arrowsmith'. I like his 'Arrowsmith' the best of all his works. I think, though 'Babbitt' necessarily forces itself into any consideration of the novels of Sinclair Lewis...