Word: refered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whom critics refer to as the German Keats...
Does anyone find a humorous-but not too humorous-aspect in the latest angle of World War II? I refer to the imminence of a "Bundles for Russia" campaign. Further, the probability of a song being composed about there always being a Russia and the recitation by Lynn Fontanne of the White Cliffs of Omsk. . . . Finally, we will have Brenda Frazier startling the Stork set with a most amusing pair of diamond ear clips done in the shape of a crossed hammer and sickle...
Said a newsman: "Will the Navy shoot to keep the route to Iceland open?" Colonel Knox said firmly: "I refer you again to the message." The newsman was persistent: "Does the message cover that point?" The Colonel nodded. "Yes, it does...
Determined to make the Ministry mend its muddling ways, London newsmen badger it constantly, refer to the Press v. Ministry feud as the Battle of Bloomsbury. (The Ministry operates out of Bloomsbury from an elephantine white building borrowed from London University.) Typical of the quarrel are snide cartoons of Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper...
...enter into some relations whereby we [in Africa] may avail ourselves of your music." Handy's book, like his music, is most significant as the life story of a talented Negro in the U.S. Handy makes neither much nor little of the racial question, but he does refer to it, on occasion. And now & again he speaks directly, for Jews as well as Negroes, with a lack of bitterness, a fearlessness and a dignity which lights up both the sins and the hopes of democracy...