Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday night after mailing you the card I was handed a copy of TIME, Feb. 8, and my attention was called to an article in this particular issue. The article in question was your mention of the Colored Woman who recently was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the U. S. [Violette N. Anderson of Chicago]. And in mentioning her sex you described her as a Negress...
...very musicianly audience in Manhattan, Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska proved last week that there was more than one Bach worthy of mention. On the occasion of her appearance as soloist with the Flonzaley Quartet she played, for the first time in the U. S., Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's* (son of the great Johann Sebastian) Concerto in G Minor for Harpsichord and String Quartet, scored by herself from the manuscript parts found in the sale of Prieger's collection at Bonn...
...decision was the product of many months and some half a million dollars' worth of hearings, not to mention several weeks deliberation on the part of the Commission. The proposal was for a merger of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.) with the Pere Marquette, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Hocking Valley railroads into a great system with some 9,500 miles of track, connecting New York City and Newport News on the Atlantic coast with Chicago and St. Louis in the interior. It would be a fourth great Eastern railway system rivaling the New York Central...
...forgotten civilization which the author has convincingly re-created. There are to be sure, dull parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical values. It is a book which need not affright the intellectually lazy: it is a book which to the intellectually wearied may provide keen relaxation...
...think there is perhaps a great deal in that. In my own work I am inclined to adhere more to the conventional forms of meter and rhyme. I am proud to say that I am not one of those who thinks Tennyson beneath contempt or is bored at mention of the nineteenth century tury...