Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distributed by McClure Newspaper Syndicate to 71 dailies including big ones (like the New York Herald Tribune) and comparatively obscure ones (like Hearst's Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph). Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, writing his daily syndicated piece, for the Hearst press and King Features Syndicate, had occasion last week to refer to the Coolidge articles. But how to avoid advertising to Hearst readers that they need only pick up a copy of the New York Herald Tribune, Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Washington Post, and find the Coolidge words? Loyal Hearstman, Colyumist Brisbane found a way. Wrote he: "Calvin Coolidge, in the Pittsburgh...
...fellow Caucasians on the naked superstitious, polygamous and polyandrous New Irishmen. Shocking to vegetarians were her tales of petty island wars of which she said : "The causes of these wars generally were women and pigs. If a neighboring tribe would steal . . . there would be a war. The older natives refer to them as 'The good old days.' Only fallen enemies would be eaten as delicacy prevented consumption of friends...
...Representatives refer to each other as "the Gentleman from Idaho" (or wherever) but an M. P. is "the Honorable Member from East Ham," or "the Learned Member" if a lawyer, or "the Gallant Member" if a military or naval man, or "the Right Honorable" if a Minister of the Crown...
...afford to do otherwise that the White House took pains to emphasize that he was still "open-minded" and would "study the bill thoroughly" before acting upon it. That was to say, President Hoover would do no less on the Tariff Bill than he does on all legislation-refer it to the interested departments, in this case Treasury and Commerce, for technical opinions. If the President should choose to veto the bill, he would count on Secretaries Mellon and Lamont to supply him with expert reasons for so doing...
...long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer to Benito Mussolini in public conversation as "Mr. Smith" or "Aunt...