Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call your attention to item in TIME of Nov. 28 issue, p. 31, top, which refers to women's lounge and smoking room on trains operated by the Pennsylvania R. R., Lehigh Valley and also mentions name of the Santa Fe's crack train The Chief...
...think it rather hard on the theatre managers, who book their plays far in advance, to give the pictures negative advertising, which no doubt influences many to stay away from an evening's enjoyment for them. . . . Don't bother to look for my name on your list of subscribers as it isn't there, for I am continually on the move and find it much easier to pick one up somewhere each week, than to bother trying to have one trail me, but I haven't missed reading one in ages, and don't intend...
...Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such an edict. Only the captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves of faintly Hebraic name and appearance. As formulated by Will Hays, the edict in question was, "that no pictures be issued that could offend the Jew or cause the thoughtless to point the finger of scorn...
...frantic wire to Mr. Morse revealed that for want of a name the mummies hadn't the ghost of a chance of getting into Plymouth...
...Harper's "What Has Happened to Boston?", with the memory not yet obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in the pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel being in the fact that both cities lost their majesties, the one through luxury, the other through misplaced Puritanism...