Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Which ends this item, except to mention to American History fans that he is related to Marbury of Marbury vs. Madison...
That is not all. One of her prosecutors has made public his notes since the reduction of her sentence. He described her as depraved and a Nazi sadist. Because of the limitations of time only a small part of the evidence against her was presented at the trial. No mention was made of her sexual depravity which could be described only as maniacal. She escaped the death penalty because she conceived an illegitimate child during her internment. She is an incredibly amoral woman...
...Casual mention of tobacco proved disastrous to Dalton last November. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he prematurely let slip a part of the top-secret budget by jovially remarking to a newsman friend: "You might pay a bit more for beer, but I'm not putting any more on tobacco." Next day he admitted his indiscretion and resigned under pressure...
...mention of the fact that Columbia has a few good ball-players also brings a derisive snort from Little, who means that Columbia's freshman teams of last year and the year before were "the worst in Columbia history" and that hence he has no new blood to pep up his squad...
...happens every fall. Maybe only a few times, if you're lucky, but it happens. Somebody walks up to you, strikes you on the back, and says "What's new?" This year, the answer is simple. Just mention the collection of blinking green traffic lights on the road to Wellesley, the Howard Johnson's on the Square, the television set in Jim's Place, the Three Brothers' Valateria's fancy tailor-newsstand-shoeshine establishment on Mt. Auburn Street, the refurbishing in Felix', the shoe and book sections at the Coop, or the Music Department's appointment of Randall Thompson. They...