Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere and threadbare splendor of a little Kentucky hamlet in the reconstruction days is brought to the screen in the cinema version of Irvin S. Cobb's "Judge Priest." Old men in tattered gray jackets sit whittling on the court-house steps; bearded jaws work the faster at mention of how the Yankees field at Chickamauga; and in the barber shop across the street loafers nudge each other as the girl in crinoline sweeps...
...says you, mention false teeth? Well, says I, false teeth, and eyeglasses too, are most important in the adolescent ramifications of sex--shades of Kraft-Ebing...
After three days, his spectacles gleaming ominously, King Alexander and his Queen returned to Belgrade. An official communique on the results of the royal visit was issued which carefully avoided any mention of anything beyond purely local issues. Customs guards will hereafter be much politer. Three new passes will be opened through the mountains. And engineers may soon bid for two new railroads, one to connect Sofia with the ports of Southern Jugoslavia...
Today, backed by Astor & Harriman money, edited by the President's most affectionate brain-truster, is the most quoted magazine in the U. S. Hating though they do to mention a magazine, newspapers quote it every week. That such luxurious free publicity should have brought Today only 59,000 circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo...
...Since his accession to office, M. Barthou has been largely responsible for bringing Russia into the League of Nations, for guiding Italy towards a greater understanding of the Anglo-French outlook, and it was his sincere mission to achieve a closer alliance with the English-speaking nations,--not to mention his part in the formation of the Eastern Locarno Pact. He was one of the most enlightened ministers in France since Poincare...