Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion that the President is handling two dams in one day? What about Rand McNally? Isn't there some-thing just a little unsettling in the Times's dogmatic position, as though the editor had decided to ignore subsequent elections and announced that henceforth he would refer to Mr. Roosevelt as President Chester A. Arthur? What can you do about a thing like that...
...price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound that has been heard in the land since a whisper from Samuel Insull was a roar from the douds. . . . I refer to the shrill, waning "No, no, no," while Referee Arthur Donovan ended the fight by counting...
Less successful impresarios often refer to "Gallo luck." (His name means "Lucky Rooster.") But Gallo believes more in hard work and frugality. He pays his routine singers $85 per week, thus can afford to keep his seat prices low. Even at such wages the singers sing often. And if they complain of their schedules, Gallo can always remind them of the hours he has worked since he arrived in the U. S.. an immigrant of 17 who had lost all but 12? shooting craps in the steerage...
...comes to worst, Ethiopia would much prefer being under the just and considerate administration of Britain than that of Italy." This caused the British Foreign Office to call him in next day and intimate that an envoy to the Court of St. James's would do well not to refer publicly to His Majesty's Government as the lesser of two evils. But meanwhile 9-year-old John Martin had completely won over the Nile Club...
Major characteristic of the Cardinals' performance this year as last has been rowdy behavior, on & off the field. This has caused baseball writers to refer to them as ''the Gas House Gang," to compare them to the oldtime Baltimore Orioles, who could fight almost as ably as they could play. The famed Dean Brothers, after a bad start, last week seemed reasonably sure of winning the astonishing quota of 45 games which they set for themselves last spring. Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean had won 23. Paul Dean...