Word: referse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME Sept. 5 refers to David Lasser as "long-nosed" (p. 9), to Al Smith as "red of nose" (p. 11), and to Philadelphia's Coroner Charles Hersch as "scythe-nosed" (p. 12). Why should a newsmagazine such as TIME concern itself with descriptions of men's "schnozzles...
The expression "as independent as a hog on ice" is as old as the hills, and refers to live hogs on slippery, frozen ground, and it simply means this, "If you can't stand up you can dog-gone well sit down!"
¶ Meanwhile at Nahant, Mass., where a sharply horizontal house is abuilding for Son No. 4 John's parent-in-law-to-be, Fiancee Anne Lindsay Clark's eleven-year-old sister Joan said of Franklin Roosevelt, to whom she refers somewhat prematurely as "Uncle Franklin": "I like...
Since the 51 percent required refers only to union members who have paid their dues, Joseph Stefani last night urged the A. F. of L. waitresses to pay up as soon as possible. Half the waitresses, he declared, were in arrears. "Inside" union officials argued, however, that even if all...
Nobody knows how Bug Tussle, Ala. got its name. Its 300 citizens, mostly cotton farmers, rather think it refers to their annual battle with boll weevils.