Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of the movie Mr. Lucky (TIME, Sept. 20) mention is made of a "new brand of double talk (sample: 'Lady from Bristol' for 'pistol'). . . ." Rhyming slang, of which this is a specimen, has long been current among certain classes of English-speaking people, and the matter has been pretty thoroughly covered by students of slang, cant...
...Tucson, Arizona. He joined Company D. (then E) after two months at Tucson. Probably most people around here think of South Bend as the home of Notre Dame, but South Benders insist that there also are a couple of places called the Stude-baker and Bendix corporations deserving of mention...
...porpoise loves the prow of a ship, Shaw splashed happily in the public gaze. But Mrs. Shaw once told a reporter: "I am never interviewed, never photographed, and one of my special desires is that no newspaper should ever mention my name." She was the one woman in Britain, someone said, who put all her brains into remaining unknown. According to her own estimate, she spent "a third of my time looking after my husband...
...this manifest absurdity. The answer pointed out that under MPR-330, 37 Grant stores are forbidden to sell a $10.98 coat that 401 others could still carry because they never sold coats before. Just for good measure, the defense also alleged that the whole Price Control Act, not to mention MPR-330, violates the Fifth ("due process") Amendment of the Constitution...
...comparatively small number of the student officers are as yet unblessed by connubial bliss, so many pairs of ears pricked up significantly at Lt. O'Neill's mention of the social opportunities available to us and at Lt. O'Connor's praise of the Recreation Officer as what euphemistically might be called a "provider...