Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DONE HER WRONG-Milt Gross- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Funnyman Gross can write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a "novel" in pictures, a takeoff on anything you like to mention: melodrama, cinema, picture-novels, the U. S., Virtue, Vice, comic strips...
...answering Democrats who twit him on the slump was when he said: "There are . . . several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...Patriots. President Hoover's speech to the American Legion convention at Boston was a generalized plea for good citizenship and law observance. He did not mention Prohibition by name. He reminded the legionaires of the $900,000,000 the U. S. is spending each year to care for 700,000 World War Veterans, declared that their "demands upon the government should not exceed the measure that justice requires and self-help can provide...
Early in the War "F. E." jumped from Ireland to France (as so many hotheads did), won mention in despatches and the rank of Major in the King's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, was recalled to London by Lord Kitchener to advise the Government in ticklish court-martial cases, presently became Chief Censor...
...west and middle west. Other eastern colleges have taken up the move in addition to Harvard. Announcement was made yesterday that Princeton had been left $500,000 to be used for increases in salaries of faculty members. In the official announcement from University Hall there was no mention of the comparative incomes at Harvard under the new standard in relation to those of professors in other colleges