Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemingly gets a tremendous zest out of life. Breaking her promise five minutes after it was made not to mention the theatre, she expounded her theory of what the American theatre has to offer in the way of development. Miss Kennedy is a firm believer in the use of dress, settings, and a minimum of makeup to accentuate development of plot or character when the lines are not nearly sufficient. She used illustrations profusely from "Michael and Mary" to prove her points. Miss Kennedy emphasized the fact that all the latest hits of New York were decidedly the other extreme...
Senator Walsh elsewhere in today's CRIMSON gives a list of the qualifications for those intending to enter politics as a profession but he fails to mention the advantages and attractions of such a career for the college graduate. At present it is decidedly not the thing for the young man to be a professional politician. Statistics on the Harvard class of 1910, by Stuart Chase show that politics is almost as unpopular as the ministry...
Thanks for item "Playing Soldiers" in TIME of Oct. 20, in which you mention the fact that most Legionaries never saw front line action and that their convention resembled a gala college reunion, somewhat ribald...
...clapping the Brown Derby upon the old gentleman's head and down over his ears. At Providence he bluntly began an address to 15,000: "Well, let's get at it"-the "it" being a round flaying of the Republican administration. When the crowd booed his first mention of President Hoover, he waved them into silence with, "Don't let's take up the radio time." (He pronounced it "raydio," not "raddio" as he did in 1928.) A sample Smith crack of last week...
...Edward A. Pierce, who has been in Wall Street for 30 years. He is a tremendous worker, often sleeps at his office. He is assisted by 27 partners, the largest roster of any New York Stock Exchange member-house. No account of the firm would be complete without mention of one of the most recent partners, Miss Ethel F. Mercereau...