Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has awarded a number of annual prizes for theses and doctoral dissertations. The George B. Sohier Prize was awarded to Henry S. Heifetz '57-4 for his senior honors thesis entitled "The Development of Imagery and Thought in the Poetry of Edwin Muir." Honorable mention went to Judith C.R. Davies...
...proposal, as leaked from the office of Finance Minister Rufo Lopez Fresquet, was so zany that the Cuban press thought somebody was pulling its leg: anyone mentioned in the Cuban social register or newspaper society pages would have to pay a tax for the honor. The bite would be $1 per mention, plus $1 for each flattering adjective. Titles of nobility would be taxed $100, and photographs $10 per column inch. For collecting the tax, the newspapers would be allowed to keep 25% of the take. Going along with the gag, Prensa Libre used up seven adjectives in describing Minister...
...changed his name to Barnum so the pair could work their way around the country as Bailey & Barnum. They were a sort of circus minimus until a Manhattan impresario gave them a five-minute spot in Fred and Adele Astaire's Lady, Be Good. The playbill did not mention their act, Bailey says airily, but "it stopped the show. I remember the pit musicians claiming overtime...
...misinformed, as when he asserts that class structures are more flexible in Britain than in the U.S., and he over-sentimentalizes the American past, suggesting that only yesterday Horatio Alger was king. "Status striving" to him seems to be a modern menace, and he writes of it with scant mention of Thorstein ("conspicuous consumption") Veblen or of the massive, fascinating and often exhilarating social climbs described by Balzac, Stendhal, Jane Austen...
Hefty Charge. For years brokerage houses avoided the funds like the plague, fearful that they would hurt regular brokerage business. But most of them have come around. Main holdout: Manhattan's huge Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, which has never even deigned to mention the funds' existence in its financial letter...