Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will find in New York that] what the advance advertising did not mention was the ugliness of the fire escapes ... or the noise and grime and smell of the subways, or the scores of desolately unbeautiful cross-town streets. . . . What is true of New York is true of America itself. All of it together, the splendid, shoddy, calm and frenzied are one thing...
...there was one important figure which Stelle had failed to mention: in six months of Bradley's regime, the number of veterans had jumped from...
London papers did not mention the fact, but dried eggs and the British loan are closely related. Britons need the $3.75 billion U.S. credit in order to buy food, raw materials and machinery during the next five years of reconstruction. But neither their leaders nor the man on the Clapham omnibus, however much their nation needed the dollars, liked the terms on which it got them.. Those at the top did not want to face an uncertain free-trade future. Arch-Imperialist Robert Boothby had orated in the Commons debate: ". . . One mandate which His Majesty's Government never...
...could have produced with a few slips from the rigid interpretation. Codrie Hardwicke, on the other hand, has a part to be envied in Creon, although this is not to say that he fails in any way to do it justice. Horace Braham as the Chorus is worthy of mention for his fine delivery of a touchy role, as is George Mathews for his portrayal of the First Guard, the part that contains most of the injected parody of modern life, an anachronism devoutly to be abhorred...
...money to Duke University; if Duke didn't want it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. Third choice: Rollins. Duke invited Ackland down for a visit, set an architect to drawing plans. Obviously pleased, Ackland drew up a second will, which made no mention of North Carolina, left a few token legacies to relatives and Rollins. It bequeathed to Duke not only about $1,250,000 for the art museum but the mortal remains of William Ackland-to be buried in an apse of the museum. After Ackland died, well-heeled Duke, which doesn...