Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contention that the modern undergraduate is a pretty sophisticated young man and at the same time perhaps a bit more serious in his studies--if we may accept the yearning for a Phi Bta Kappa key as genuine--other votes would indicate that he has changed little. We refer to his attitude, of all things, toward poetry. In 1921 his favorite poets were Kipling, Tennyson and Browning; in 1931 they are Browning, Kipling and Tennyson. Ten years ago he voted "If" his favorite poem, followed by Gray's "Elegy"; today he does the same. This may have been all right...
...this article you refer to me as a recent "Senator-suspect" and I am wondering why you used this misleading description...
...Dear Sirs . . . My words 'uniformed asses,' 'Attila's horse,' 'official bandit' and others similar to that ... do not refer to Major Arsenio Ortiz but are intended for whomever shall be found guilty of the horrible deaths inflicted on citizens of Santiago de Cuba...
...Neighborhood Playhouse") offended many a purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music of Gothic design and Apocalyptic splendor the audience was privileged to behold the strange struttings, posings, leapings, of a man at the base of an elevation upon which and about which were grouped seven maidens...
...pattern my rowing on English systems, but only refer to the trying difficulty experienced last year in displacing for a better man the captain of Oxford or Cambridge. You can not change a man after the race starts as you can in football. F.W.C. Foster...