Word: referse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of the decision: "We are disappointed . . . but it will not make any change in our policy. . . . Tap ping or otherwise tampering with telephone lines is an unlawful trespass upon the property of the companies which they...
For instance, in your May 14 issue, 3rd column, page 18, what possible excuse have you for referring to the late Queen Victoria of England as "dumpy"; the word lacks respect when it refers to that beloved ruler of a Great Nation who during her life was described as "the...
The last sentence refers to a recent speech by Mr. Kellogg before the American Society of International Law, wherein he declared that a nation signatory to the Kellogg Pact would not be deprived of the right to make war in self defense. This interpretation the British have now broadened to...
New England is a backward, decadent section. Its factories are out-of-date; its inhabitants are idlers; its ideas have not yet emerged from the sperm-oil days. These words (or words less polite) have been spoken and applauded many times at booster meetings of towns to the West and...
"Hassan" is full of the atmosphere of "The Arabian Nights." The scene is laid in ancient Bagdad, in the days of Haroun al Raschid, and there are pictures of disguise and adventure, cruel fate and torture. "The New Statesman" refers to "Hassan" as a "magnificent acting play. It is a...