Word: mention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been obliged to pay $5,251.30 in duties and fines for an improper customs declaration which his wife had made out for them jointly. Inspectors had discovered $2,625.65 (U. S. value) worth of dresses, lingerie, etc., etc., in the Steuer luggage which Mrs. Steuer had neglected to mention...
...fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon his own splendid sexual virility, Mrs. Weatherby preferred not to mention for reasons...
...news almost as ideal as the traditional man-bites-dog story, because Nominee Hoover is customarily camera-shy and posing with other celebrities has been Fielder Ruth's routine for years. What no writer ventured to mention as a possible explanation, aside from professional jealousy and personal politics, was that the man who, as owner of the Yankees, contracts for Fielder Ruth's services, is Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime beer-brewer. "If Babe Ruth ever posed with any Dry," said a fan, "Jake Ruppert'd slap a fine on him quicker...
What puzzled people was Mr. Raskob's failure to mention Illinois as a Smith possibility. What interested them, in the light of recent events, was the claiming of Wisconsin and Minnesota...
...kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...