Word: refering
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...They refer," replied Mr. Eaton, "not to physical whiskers so much as to another kind of mask...
...back on his hands one of the oldest and thorniest disputes between the Army and Navy. The question: where, in coast defense, does naval aviation stop and military aviation begin? It was the kind of controversy that President Hoover, as commander-in-chief of both services, could not refer to an expert commission for settlement because all the experts? officers of the Army and Navy?were already professionally prejudiced...
...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...