Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Restrictions on railroad passenger service for ordinary citizens are imminent, said ODT's Joseph Eastman. U.S. railroads, which last year handled 25,000,000,000 passenger miles, will have to handle more & more of the 15,000,000,000 highway-bus passenger miles, not to mention part of the private automobile load (last year some 250,000,000,000 passenger miles). In Britain, every railroad station now hangs out a sign saying "Is your journey really necessary...
...smoke" is in its proper place (under Cigar, not Woman) but e. e. cummings' acerb switch ("For a bad cigar is a woman but a gland is only a gland") might well have been cited, too. Under the opinions about "men of mark" Mencken fails to mention Mark Twain's famous "Just that one omission alone[Jane Austen's books] would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." Lincoln's "I laugh because I must not cry-that's all, that...
...week the Republican National Committee met in Chicago to lay down the Party policy for 1942. Chairman Joe Martin of Massachusetts, as usual, wanted a do-nothing, say-nothing policy. Ohio's Senator Taft and Illinois' Senator Brooks, both rock-hard Isolationists before Pearl Harbor, wanted no mention of post-war attitudes. Wendell Willkie wanted a clear statement that the Republican Party realizes and accepts the post-war responsibility of the U.S. to the rest of the world...
...Farben) to monopolize vital war materials, restrict their availability to the U.S. and Britain. Angry Carboloy and Remington officials made the familiar reply: if they had not made a deal to get.the German patents, the U.S. would have entered the war entirely without these vital materials*, not to mention the secret of how to make and use them. Carboloy's President W. G. Robbins got so mad at having his patriotism impugned (and at being "smeared before trial by the official prosecutor" of an antitrust indictment against him) that he stamped out of the room, saying "I refuse...
...Caveau. His name was Pierre Vautier. It turned out that he had defied his father by quitting St. Cyr (the French West Point) and taking a job in an art gallery. "It was a small gallery that specialized in ultramodern paintings of the neo-Cubistic school, the sight or mention of which had, on many occasions, nearly proven disastrous to the father's brittle arteries. Vautier the Elder's aversion to the gallery and its wares had been heightened by the indisputable fact that practically all of the other employes, the owner, most of the artists whose work...