Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is still some medical skepticism-not to mention catcalls from the public-about Freud's preoccupation with "sex." Certainly it helped give psychoanalysis (and with it, psychiatry) a bad name. (Another reason was Freud's personal atheism.) Like the "Kinsey report" half a century later, "Freudianism" provided a handy excuse for the loose morals of Bohemians everywhere, and a handy club for belaboring all "repressed" prudes and Babbitts...
...ability to keep them awake in the theater. Coming to Hollywood from Mars, Welles' first movie, "Citizen Kane," set the film industry on its ear and sent William Randolph Hearst on Mr. Welles. Recognizing that he was Kane, Hearst has since allowed none of his papers to mention Welles and has forbidden at least one studio to touch his work. In a town that is totally dependent on publicity for its survival, such opposition has made it tough for Welles to make the kind of pictures he wants to make. He has made two others--Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent...
...Deatherage, Fritz Kuhn, William Dudley polley, and several groups he claimed were Communist fronts. Then Mason called the roll of the committee's friends, which included the American Federation of Labor, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Elks, and the Society of Mayflower Descendants. But Mason forgot to mention admirers from abroad. The Federal Communications Commission had solemnly reported that Dies got as much favorable comment from the Axis radio as any living American public figure...
...Contrary to common opinion," Dean Bender said, "it is not true that unfavorable mention of a student in a newspaper leads to severance of connection...
...simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it . . " Sally Fairfax answered his letter at once, but tactfully avoided any mention of his romantic confession...