Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call your attention to an entirely misleading advertisement that appears on your back cover page? [TIME, June 21] I refer to the one advertising the missing (?) books of the Bible. The advertisement is so written that its tendency is to lead people to believe that these books have just recently been discovered. Of course as you very well know scholars have been able to estimate the value of these books and have given them their proper place. Nor are they anything new as this advertisement erroneously suggests, they have been known for centuries...
...Please refer to page 26 of the May 24 issue of TIME. In this list of automobile terms the only brand name that you have included is that of our product "Du Pont Duco." In a way, I suppose we should be flattered, but on the other hand we are spending thousands of dollars in advertising the fact that "There is Only One Duco?DU PONT Duco" in order to protect the buying public against substitution. It does not seem, therefore, as though anyone responsible for the editorial content of a publication such as TIME, should permit this misuse...
...second time within a few months you refer to the esteemed wife of Ignace Jan Paderewski as Mme. Paderewski" (TIME, May 24, MUSIC). Permit me to suggest that "Mme. Paderewska" is the correct form- a title, by the way, which Dame Nellie Melba declared, in her autobiography, Melodies and Memories (TIME, April 26, BOOKS) would have been acceptable to herself, had it ever been offered...
...Robinson: "To what game does the Senator refer...
...rarely the good fortune of a reviewer to be able to refer to the artistic standards of an author, and to hold up beside this foot rule the artist's most recent work, in this case a book of short stories, "Here and Beyond." There are five chapter headings in "The Writing of Fiction," and judgment of Mrs. Wharton's short stories may validly proceed on at least two counts of the five, if not more. She treats fiction writing in general, the telling of a short story, the work of constructing a novel, and the character situation...