Word: referse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert H. Clancy of Michigan-refers to himself as "The Billion Dollar Congressman" during campaigns. Went to the House first as a Democrat, was beaten at the polls and is now there as a Republican, violently partisan. He is the great "whisperer" of the House, with all manner of "inside...
When one speaks of "Lady Peel'' one correctly refers to either: 1) Ella Viscountess Peel, prim; or 2) Beatrice Lillie, flippant. It was the latter Lady Peel, of course, who recently originated the jest of calling every U. S. citizen residing west of Manhattan a "Middlie Westie."
In the Sept. 24 issue of your magazine, the article does not state to which party Senator Fess refers when he says, "This is the first time in history during a national political campaign that we have on one side all of the loose element of morals . . ." but in view...
"Flappers" & "Reds." The song sums up in a few catchy and atrocious rhymes the nub of what Stanley Baldwin had to say when he finally arose and spoke. The line about "ladies" having "along with men an equal vote" refers to the chief accomplishment of the Baldwin Cabinet, namely enfranchisement...
English wit on the Manhattan stage consists largely of crossing the slang out of comic strips and reading them in a British accent. But comic strips can be and are often funny; the best comedy in The High Road is out of "Bringing Up Father." Lord Trench (Frederick Kerr) is...