Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whilst the range of prices that you quote- from a minimum of $94.50,up to a maximum of $262.50-are no doubt correct as being those offered by the company whose name you mention, the impression given to the casual reader is that the minimum rates quoted are the lowest in force anywhere. As such, they are likely to appall the person of moderate means who is contemplating a visit to England at this time...
Fanny's letters never mention what she really thought of her lover's poetry, though on other literary subjects she is quite frank: "I go on as usual, reading every trumpery novel that comes in my way spoiling my taste and understanding. . . ."-A passage on Byron is almost a giveaway: "Don't you or do you admire Don Juan? perhaps you like the serious parts best but I have been credibly informed that Lord B. is not really a great poet, have taken a sort of dislike to him when serious and only adore...
...should think be one who advocated, practiced or devoted himself to rape through conviction. One who has raped or is raping would I imagine be a raper. Probably they don't care what we call them-just a question of accurate English, so long as you choose to mention them at all. One who skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams in caps. Singularly difficult to read them that way. I can't "sense" the meaning...
...prose has been divided between sane and salty comment on the current U. S. scene, good-humored correction of misquotations and bad grammar by other journalists, and the weekly "Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," in which most of Manhattan's artists & writers sooner or later received mention. Addicted to punning, F. P. A. credits Dramatist George S. Kaufman with one of the Conning Tower's most famed play-on-words: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." Two average F. P. Aisms: "He (Walter Lippmann) appears to think that Roosevelt is putting...
...York cut traffic deaths 12.2% from the 1935 total of 954 to 838 in 1936. This was 17% less than the average total for the three years prior to 1936. Close second in the big-city group was Philadelphia. Chicago and San Francisco won honorable mention. Other traffic safety winners in their population groups: Kansas City (250,000 to 500,000); Omaha (100,000 to 250,000); Jackson, Mich. (50,000 to 100,000); West New York, N. J. (25,000 to 50,000); Wilmette...