Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permit us to refer to p. 36 of your issue of Nov. 23 from which the following quotation is taken...
...course, refer to the picture of Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman [Mrs. Simpson's "Aunt Bessie," TIME, Nov. 23], the lady seated on the right and Mrs. Charles Bradley is the lady standing. The mistake was only brought to our attention this morning when we heard from Washington...
There was no other issue last week to which the London Times could conceivably have found it necessary to refer in such fashion, and the Cabinet was reported contemplating, as the most practicable means of thwarting the match, proceedings by the Attorney General to see whether Mrs. Simpson can be legally blocked from obtaining her final decree of divorce April 27, thus forcing her in England to remain the wife of Mr. Simpson. Sir Claud Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor was reported to have advised the Cabinet that legally the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson without the Government...
Keynote of the biography on page 117, the last page: "Wallis Simpson IS a queen-the queen of romance, of glamour and the unfulfilled longings of a love-starved World." In Lancaster, Ohio last week the Eagle-Gazette announced that it will never again refer in print to the King & Mrs. Simpson unless: 1) they "elope"; 2) King Edward permits himself to be "directly quoted" on Mrs. Simpson; 3) the affair gives rise, as the horrified Eagle-Gazette fears it may, to "a Continental revolution...
Though expansive quantities are usually the accumulation of months, one unmistakably single mass measured a diameter of one and three-fourths inches. The muncher of such a wad is the sort of fellow Kipling would refer...