Word: references
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a hidden (to me) value here, it occurs to me that you are overlooking many possibilities; that this custom of yours could be broadened and diversified. As you know, undoubtedly, the President-elect is afflicted with infantile paralysis. Why not refer to him as, for instance, "The paralytic Mr. Roosevelt." And look what an opportunity you overlooked before Mr. Edison passed on. He was almost totally deaf. And, still living, is the famous deaf, dumb, and blind woman. I imagine that thousands of people that are material for your literary efforts suffer from halitosis, constipation, athlete...
...refer to that paragraph in your issue of Dec. 12, under the sub-caption "Debts, Disarmament and Davis," of National Affairs, wherein you state...
...Publisher Paul Block. He says he does not plan to retire from all business activity but has no plans for the future. Benjamin Block & Co. was reorganized as Anderson. Block & Co. with Block's son John Horace as a partner. Son Horace's friends refer to him as "old Block's chip...
...statement about the squash courts of the University Mr. Bingham admitted that the main problem was "a plain lack of courts." He does not refer to courts in the Houses, but to courts for members of the Graduate Schools and for those members of the College who do not live in the Houses. That there is a definite need for more squash courts for those members of the University who are not residents of the Houses is undoubtedly the case...
...have been that Scot Mac-Donald is suffering from "cerebral anemia" or brain fatigue. Even the cautious Times has discussed the subject guardedly. Recently at Oxford, extremely polite Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, lecturing on "The Machinery of Government," created a sensation by the following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention his name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases with...