Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There have been many reports that America was planning to extend a huge silver loan. It is a well-known fact that the silver interests of America, as a result of the tremendous slump in silver prices, find it almost impossible to dispose of their surplus stock, not to mention the problem of finding a market for further production. If China should accept such a loan China in effect would be paying for losses incurred by American silver interests...
...mention coaches new--Men who know a trick...
...competition, which will take place the latter part of this month, will consist of material submitted by American advertisers and advertising agencies collected by the committee of awards. The ten prize winners and those cited for honorable mention will formally receive the awards at a dinner at the Business School, which will be held sometime in February...
Geoffrey West makes no mention of his pseudonymous fellow, Rebecca West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield, now Mrs. Henry Maxwell Andrews), onetime great & good friend to H. G., who once sat at his feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is hardboiled, so sensible you wonder if he can really mean it. Says he: "I have never taken any great pains about writing. I am outside the hierarchy of conscious and deliberate writers altogether. . . . Sir J. C. Squire doubts if I shall 'live' and I cannot say how cordially...
...Manhattan's skyline: it is all down here in ecstatic black & white. Aside from his few omissions, his book would make a fairly good, nearly up-to-the-minute guide from Battery to Bronx. One of the omissions: speakeasies. Natu rally M. Morand is too polite to mention them by name, but he is not too polite to damn them generically. Says he : "I know nothing so depressing. . . . If only one could drink water there!" Of Manhattan's big cinemas, he thinks the Paramount "a blend of St. Peter's at Rome, the Parthenon, and the Valley...