Word: referable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soloist Garland Sirs: On p. 24, Oct. 13 issue of TIME, you print picture of and refer to Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36: "After he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying...
...refer to an editorial in the CRIMSON last week in which some one of the editorial staff backed up, with slightly muffled and forcedly ambiguous statements the grading of Boston debutantes by "Audacious" of the "Tatler." An editorial is usually representative more or less of several on the staff rather than the private outburst of one prejudiced student. Therefore, is it one writer or many who have the cynical opinion of the debutante and therefore the ladies in general...
...your Oct. 13 issue, p. 13, you refer to one "Bodenheimer" having been given the "bum's rush" in a hotel recently while President Hoover was there...
...whom you intended to refer bears the name O. M. Bodenhamer . . . and to have stated that he was given the "bum's rush" was probably using a term far below the dignity attached to one who only recently headed that magnificent group of Americans, the American Legion. I think you owe him apology, and should correct his name. No "Bodenheimer" was ever given the "bum's rush" and, most likely, "Bodenhamer" should not have been so accused...
Every now and then some college football player who attained a measure of fame on the gridiron in his under-graduate days, denounces the game as one lacking all the desirable attributes a game should possess. An example of what we refer to may be found in the article by a former Harvard player, Hubbard, in one of the popular magazines several years ago. Players who share his view are out to declare that if they had their college days to live over they would not play football, and they would not let their sons play...