Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of Feb. 23, p. 36, you refer to a forthcoming opera called Merry Mount. Mention is made of a witch-burning episode. The producers are able to make their characters do anything, I suppose, but, as far as I know, there have never been witch-burnings in this country. The idea of this form of execution probably received a great impetus from H. L. Mencken- he refers many times throughout his rather muscular prose to such affairs. As a matter of fact the form of execution was usually by hanging. If there is a case on record where...
...fellowship at the Academy in Rome. If the winner of the finals should marry before the conclusion of the term of his appointment, he must forfeit all privileges of the fellowship. Also any man receiving assistance during the competition will be disqualified. $50 prizes go to those given honorable mention in the finals, whose date is not yet definitely determined...
...contest, where it will be judged with the winning papers of 19 other colleges. An additional prize of $500 will be given to the writer of the best paper in the intercollegiate competition. C. E. Wyzanski '27 won this award in 1926, while H. H. Kleinman '30 received honorable mention last year...
...have a horror of gambling." Upon this firm, High Church foundation the present Edward of Wales and Prince George played baccarat last week without stirring the faintest ripple of British criticism. Edward VII, by his adroit, indomitable stand, made his successors safe even from the Low Church, not to mention the worm-high Nonconformists...
...Times, in reporting this part of the Pulitzer testimony, made it read "high-class newspapers like THE NEW YORK TIMES in the morning field and The Sun in the evening," did not mention the competing Herald Tribune. The Herald Tribune, in its account, did mention the Times-and next clay called attention to the Times's glaring omission in a brief editorial headed by the Times''s own lofty slogan: "All the News That's Fit to Print...