Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoped that TIME would ignore Lyndon Johnson's attention-seeking antics rather than dignify them by mention in its columns. I am comforted, however, by the realization that those Texans who read your columns are not exactly the type to be much impressed by the characteristics of a wind mill, whose activities depend on how the wind is blowing and which, although constantly in motion and usually screeching, never gets anywhere...
...suddenly died, and Howard got married, at a swank wedding in Houston, to Ella Rice (of the same family that founded Rice Institute). Four years later, they were divorced. Hughes was already in Hollywood, bringing starlets -home in droves. Ella got a million dollar settlement. Hughes now resents any mention of his marriage; he would rather be regarded as the world's most ineligible bachelor. People who know him well say firmly that he will never marry again...
...York for wholesome American living or normal American people . . . The article passes over New York's true importance in the national scene, allowing only an incidental word for the city as a port, a marketplace, a tourist center, as a "fountain spout" of culture, finding time for no mention at all of its place as a national center of music, higher education, medical research, managerial leadership, publishing, or the American tradition of human rights...
...average Hollywood movie hit). Some who did see Henry must have gone to see it out of culture-snobbery, or because they were led by the ears. The heartening fact is that the picture better than paid for itself in cold cash, not to mention prestige, in its U.S. run. And for years to come, Henry V and Hamlet will refresh and enchant every moviegoer who has it in him to love great dramatic poetry, beautifully spoken and acted...
...phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends in the Old Country...