Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitzgerald, it seems, had been drawing pay from the Tatlocks for many years for the ostensible purpose of maintaining their loony grandson Schuyler in the jungles of Hawaii. Schuyler had long since succumed to his pyromania, but Fitzgerald had neglected to mention that in his letters and had been pocketing his wages just the same. Now (at the movie's beginning) the old Tatlocks have passed away and the motley family is being assembled for the reading of the will...
...Harvard player made the second team, but honorable mention goes to captain Kenny O'Donnell and Hal Moffle...
...speaks varsity coach John chase in characterizing Crimson prospects for the winter's hockey season. "We're deeper and faster than we've been in years," says Chase, "but just as strong are BU, BC, Northeastern, Dartmouth, and Brown, to mention only a few. I wouldn't want to pick winners in any of those games...
...July 1944, Mikolajczyk and Professor Stanislaw Grabski, an elderly Polish democrat, flew from London to Moscow. Stalin wanted the Polish government in London to merge with his own Lublin Committee, consisting of Polish Communists and stooge socialists. As bait, he offered to ease the Teheran partitioning (the Curzon Line). Mention of the Curzon Line and of the Lublin Poles set Grabski off. He "began to beat on Stalin's table. He spoke for 45 minutes in Russian about the criminal injustices that were being heaped on Poland. When Grabski finished, winded, Stalin got up and patted the indignant...
...London, a leading member of the M.C.C. contradicted Mars. "Such a thing could never have happened at Lord's," he said. "Visiting cricketers can invite whom they like into their dressing rooms. They would of course mention it to the club secretary as a matter of courtesy...