Word: refering
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...Yesterday we spoke of our duty towards our town. Today we wish to speak of something that concerns each one of us more intimately. We refer to the indiscriminate leaving around of cars on the beautiful vista of lawn that stretches down to the bright sparkling waters of the Thames...
Meanwhile, Otto H. Kahn, supposed to have been one of the "interferers" (TIME, June 1), denied through his Manhattan firm (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) that the remark* attributed to him had been correctly quoted, said that they had been made at a private luncheon and did not refer to debt negotiations...
Houghton surprised them all by refusing to "dig up" again the hardy plant of Anglo-American friendship which would flourish if it "be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory. . . . You will not expect me to refer to 'hands across the sea,' " or even to "the language of Shakespeare, which neither of us uses...
...Business men should not run out of the country to avoid court subpenas. (He was understood to refer to Messrs. Blackmer, O'Neil, Osler et alii who were not in the U. S. when they were wanted at the Mammoth Oil Co. trial.) "I regard a fugitive from [court] service as second only to a fugitive from justice." (Applause...
...Page 16 in the Apr. 20 issue of TIME, you refer to "Getting the wind up" as puzzling to the lexicographers. I think 1 can throw some light upon the origin of the term, for it is part of a story that went around, especially in the ranks of the Royal Fusiliers. The story is somewhat as fellows...