Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles G. Dawes appeared last week in the role of a stickler for Senate rules. In the Chamber senators are supposed to address themselves only to the Chair and to refer to One another in the third person. The press has noted of late that there has been some laxity in this respect. But last week Senator Watson was asking a question of Senator Fess. Senator Watson's desk is in the front row, third from the centre aisle. Senator Fess' desk is in the fourth (rear) row, eighth from the aisle (nearly directly behind Mr. Watson's because...
...Does anyone seriously believe that a jury can remember all the statements made by witnesses for six weeks? When men as bright as Mr. Williams have to refer to their notes all the time when discussing the case, how are we supposed to remember every word when we have no notes? Today I asked them to let us have a transcript of the evidence so that we could read it, and refresh our recollection of what was said. Did we get it? We did not. It isn't according to practice, or something like that. There is objection...
...London editors refer to Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain as "Monsieur...
Sirs: Enclosed find a Calendar with my subject for next Sunday, "Time's Titillations." This does not refer to TIME but to "Father Time." However TIME is such a fine revelation of Life's reactions that I consider it indispensable each week before going into the pulpit. I do not speak hastily but as an "original subscriber." TIME not only titillates. It reveals for inspiration the Soul struggle of humanity...
CONVENTION ! With what complete sway it rules us! How inexorable its mandates I refer to the footnote on p. 20 of TIME, Feb. 22. It, in turn, refers to a man who spends most of his time on his yacht...