Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently reelected Prime Minister. You might mention that...
...discussion of college traditions would not even be acceptable without some mention of John B. G. Rinehart '00, of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. For nearly half a century, the cry of "Rinehart" has been the signal for a general uprising of the student population and, perhaps, a subsequent march on Radcliffe. It is the old spring riot call, and has seldom gone unanswered...
...literary canon that flippancy about death is indecent. It also cracks a lot of other time-honored conventions: the eccentric, all-knowing detective, the stupid Dr. Watson, stupendous examples of deduction, the contest between evil and the law, the contest of wits between reader and author (whodunit) -not to mention the sealed room and other elaborate means of murder. Sometimes it very nearly gets rid of plot itself...
...subscriber's old address in the geographical file. But the armed forces, for reasons of military security, refused to let servicemen give their new addresses until they had arrived at them. When they did, and could tell us about it, they generally-and quite naturally-neglected to mention their old address...
...Rodgers-Hammerstein style songs composed by Sharpe and lyricized by William Scudder are seldom clever, but they're usually spirited and often quite tuneful. Members of the cast deserving distinctly honorable mention are Allan Butler, James Young, Allan Dingwall, Robert Gardner, Scudder, Richard Humphrey, David Mackintosh, George Tilghman, Robert Young, and--but hell, this isn't the social register...