Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S mention in Letters of Ogontz, from which the well-known girls' school receives its name, does not reveal the origin of the name. Ogontz was an old Indian who served as a houseman in the home of my grandfather Erasmus Cooke at Sandusky, Ohio. My father often related to me how Ogontz used to carry him and also his cousin, the first Jay Cooke, piggie-back through the woods. When Jay Cooke and my father came to Philadelphia to enter the banking business, memories of Ogontz were so vivid that when Jay Cooke built his handsome...
...hour and forty-five minutes and five speakers later, Senator Nye, chest out, wrapped his isolationist toga about him and went through his regular act about the "warmongers" in Washington. He did not mention the fact that the U.S. was at war. The reporter sent up another note, saying that Japan had now declared war. Senator Nye read it and continued his harangue...
Harvard names aren't the only familiar ones included in the New Directions catalogue. There is material by such varied talents as Kay Boyle, Confucius, John Donne, Flaubert, Goethe: and Ezra Pound, to mention only...
Last such All-team to appear in the nation's presses, the AP awarded six other Harlowmen with honorable mention: Loren MacKinney, triple threat end, both tackles, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller, center Johnny Page, and backs Don McNicol and Captain Franny...
...TIME made no wisecracks, and it was not disrespectful of President Wood-unless mention of President Wood's affectionate nickname, "Daddy," was in itself disrespectful...