Word: referable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eccentric Bronx schoolmaster and ransom-passer in the Lindbergh case, wrote a letter to the New York Times nominating a friend for New York State Boxing Commissioner: "He knows every angle of the game. . . . My opinion is based upon a long and intimate acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name and presence to another saloon...
...while the senior divisional papers cannot rightly be given back, as they form a closed chapter in the scholastic curriculum, it is up to the University to see to it that all papers which lead up to the last judgement shall be made available for those who want to refer to them...
Oxford has also its girls: "Brains on wheels," as some Oxonians refer to them. But this is hardly fair. The girls of Oxford have really much more than brains and a bicycle: There's always their hockey. And I for one have seen some mighty fine and enthusiastic players. It is true that some seem to find some sort of carry-over from hockey to the dance floor; but a man with a little coaching in following can get on tolerably well and the girl never knows the difference. If that doesn't work I find a definite understanding...
This afternoon I was shown pp. 50 and 52 of TIME, Oct. 26, wherein Bishop Stewart of Chicago is referred to not once but twice as "the hawk-nosed George Craig Stewart." For your journal to refer to the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the seventh largest diocese of this Church in such a manner is more than a discourtesy. It is an insult, in vulgar and impertinent language, not only to the Bishop himself, but to the 55,000 or more members of his diocese, among whom I am one. It is intensely resented, and should be immediately...
Lest childless couples disbelieve that experience, Dr. Perkins cited another experience "which is frequent enough to be called common." "I refer," wrote Dr. Perkins, "to the stimulating effect upon the nervous centres controlling the reproductive apparatus which is experienced as a result of the proximity of a little child. The maternal instincts, not quite the same as but certainly very closely associated with the reproductive urge, are definitely aroused by this contact. Perhaps the reason why it has not been brought to general notice more forcibly is that the people who have experienced this sensation are a little ashamed...