Word: referring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of TIME, Feb. 11, you refer to the return to England of Col. T. E. Lawrence, and you refer to that gentleman himself as "Great Britain's most celebrated spy." I should like to know what excuse you have for calling him "spy," or what proof have you that...
Events strikingly revealed, last week, that Jugoslavia's 12,000,000 citizens are now quietly despotized by one man? their King. The nation was faced with a problem which most people would refer to their Parliament. But the King has abolished Parliament (TIME, Jan. 14). He has suspended the constitution. Therefore it was Alexander who decided of his sole volition, last week, that Jugoslavia should ratify the Kellogg-Briand peace pact renouncing war (TIME, July...
...Contemptibles." To this day Britons who fought in France during 1914 proudly refer to themselves collectively, as "The Old Contemptibles." This they do because on Sept. 24, 1914 they read in the British Expeditionary Force Routine Orders of the day that on Aug. 19, 1914 the Kaiser declared, in a General Order issued from German Headquarters, Aix-la-Chapelle...
Scarcely any one in England would think of calling Mrs. Stanley Baldwin "Lucy,"' except of course her husband, the Prime Minister. Even the smart friends of Miss Betty Baldwin, including some of London's most notorious titled set, would never refer to a "church" in her mother's presence as a "Godbox."* Therefore it was quite "in character" for Mrs. Baldwin to go, last week, to a quite old-fashioned little church bazaar...
NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY National Association of Real Estate Boards, Chicago, Ill. Let subscribers note well that TIME will invariably designate "active members of member boards of the National Association of Real Estate Boards" as "Realtors." In conformance with general usage, TIME may also refer to any person who traffics or dabbles in real estate as a "realtor." Thus, while all "Realtors" are "realtors," not all "realtors" are "Realtors."-ED. Camel & Chesterfield Magazine Sirs: Your excellent publication might easily be termed the Chesterfield of magazines-"it satisfies," and from my personal viewpoint the word Camel would certainly apply...