Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, the manager of the Hotel Commodore sent a bellhop to a nearby church to exchange bills for silver from the collection plate. A clerk in a Schulte cigar store said he had enough change for a week. ''But, for God's sake don't mention it. . . . You'll have all the other Schulte managers sending for it." Rich folk entered automats, got 20 nickels, ate nothing. Change was plentiful in the subways. "We're taking the place of them banksters," boasted an Interborough boothman...
...with a distinct religious purpose, the colonists all feeling that they were carrying out the will of God and were making the world safe for the Protestants. It is not difficult to realize this from a casual glance at the diary, which hardly lets a week pass without some mention of their religious activities or a record of the Sunday services...
...think, however that you misrepresented old Peter slightly. According to you he was somewhat of a ladies' man and a bit primitive, what's more. He was killed in an explosion on the Kettle Valley railway, as you mention. The employes who have been running that line for many years knew him well. When one mentions him to any of them a gleam of admiration will appear. "Ah, there was a gentleman and an aristocrat...
Your gasoline alcohol correspondents, Ralph Lovelady of Iowa and Tribuno of New York, have touched on a potent subject in your Feb. 20 issue. They, however, neglected to mention that 20 years ago much of the power of the country was furnished by animals called horses: that agriculture furnished the fuel called corn, oats and hay to run these horses: that man invented automobiles, trucks and tractors. Exit horses and exit also an important part of agriculture's market...
...Smith '35 as Firk and J. T. Dennison '34 as Simon Eyre, the shoemaker, were outstanding for their performances. M. F. English '33 as Sir Roger Oatley, G. P. Rosen '33 as Margery, the shoemaker's wife, and T. W. Nazro '34 as Sybil also deserve special mention. R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of the House, took the part of King Henry V, coming on the stage in the last act, preceded by a blare of trumpets. After the scene was over, King Roger and his court paraded through the dining hall, rapidly circled back...