Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "The Cardinals refer to him, in hushed tones, as Fearless Bert Wilson. He has fixed upon the Cardinals a cold, disapproving eye, and frankly, we are not up to meeting it. We have lowered our own eyes. He has been predicting for weeks that the Cardinals would fold...
Manhattan city editors sometimes refer to the New York Social Register as the Stud Book. A stud book lists well-bred horses; the Register (supposedly) lists well-bred people. But while a stud book follows a consistent adherence to blood lines, the Register is often oddly inconsistent...
...refer, of course, to the make-up of your Nov. 17 issue, pages 34-35, wherein the Goodyear ad picturing Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is in apposition to the photo of the Bolshevik 30th Anniversary Parade in Moscow...
Poppa's Boy. Chep Morrison's family goes far back into that turbulent history. Though his political opponents glibly refer to him as a "Boston Club man," he is not a member of that proud and rigid club. Reform movements used to start in the Boston Club; generally they amounted to no more than a delicate finger-pointing at the city's bland face of corruption. The movement to which Chep belongs has been more effective...
...melodies (notable exception: The Last Time I Saw Paris, which Oscar first wrote as a poem, Jerome Kern later put to music). This system of creation puts the pinch on the lyricist; and it is in the pinches that Oscar has earned the awe of his fellow craftsmen, who refer to him as "The Master." Oscar now writes his words first and lets Rodgers weave a song...