Word: reference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Houghton surprised them all by refusing to "dig up" again the hardy plant of Anglo-American friendship which would flourish if it "be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory. . . . You will not expect me to refer to 'hands across the sea,' " or even to "the language of Shakespeare, which neither of us uses...
...Business men should not run out of the country to avoid court subpenas. (He was understood to refer to Messrs. Blackmer, O'Neil, Osler et alii who were not in the U. S. when they were wanted at the Mammoth Oil Co. trial.) "I regard a fugitive from [court] service as second only to a fugitive from justice." (Applause...
...Page 16 in the Apr. 20 issue of TIME, you refer to "Getting the wind up" as puzzling to the lexicographers. I think 1 can throw some light upon the origin of the term, for it is part of a story that went around, especially in the ranks of the Royal Fusiliers. The story is somewhat as fellows...
...Gong", announced by the Harvard Dramatic Club for its spring production, conforms to the dramatic rules set down by its author, Mr. John Dos Passos, in a recent number of Vanity Fair, we may be sure that the play is of questionable merit. The essay to which I refer is in substance an attack upon the "literary" drama. "We may as well admit," the author begins, "that for our time there are no questions of aesthetics...
...Mary Reade is joking, I chuckle with her. If not, she might refer to page 939 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920, giving one definition of the adjective "grammatical" as "of or pertaining to" grammar. Therefore to use the word "broadcasted" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" is properly referred to as a "grammatical" error. A. H. MILES