Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gets on the subject of "invisible government" his thin, sarcastic voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years ago Pitt seniors voted him their most popular professor. If anyone still doubted that he was a good teacher, Ralph Edmund Turner could and did refer him last week to no less an authority than John Gabbert Bowman, who few years ago publicly called him "one of the ten best professors in the University...
...money? "Mercy, mercy no!" All she had said was that some church money had been "diverted." By whom? Why, she had never said. Miss Nellie Prietzel and five other parishioners said she had. Six others said she had not. Mrs. Charles Edwards said she had heard Rector Livingston refer to one of his ladies as a "rattlesnake." Rector Livingston said he had not. He said Miss Julia Smith had told someone that he ought to be "behind the bars." Miss Julia Smith said she had not. Someone said Miss Smith had once broken up a Ladies Aid Meeting by tossing...
...comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon me with a petition asking me to retract the state ments I had made with regard to their native city. . . ." It did not take him long to learn to refer to "The War Between the States...
...like Mr. Groesbeck's attitude. Nevertheless he upped his offer $1,300,000 on condition that Mr. Groesbeck throw in an important transmission line, gave him until this week to take it or leave it. Admitting that investors deserved a break, Mr. Lilienthal tartly observed: "You refer to the activities of the T. V. A. ... and P. W. A. very much as if those two agencies were outside interests plotting the destruction of your business. You seem to forget that both ... are instrumentalities of the people of the United States." If Mr. Groesbeck takes...
...elections of Popes in 1914 and 1922, for both of which he arrived in Rome too late to vote, the rugged Cardinal does not set down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal O'Connell refer to the fact that he, a shrewd organizer whose power is supposed even to have extended to sponsoring Boston's famed theatrical censorship, has sometimes been called "The Pope of New England...