Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cordial & Remote. Over the years, hundreds of B.N.C. students have learned to know and respect the man they refer to as The Principal. Only a few intimates call him by his nickname, "Sonners," which is derived from his pre-1917 name, William Sonnenschein ("my father changed his name at the same time that the then King changed...
...question she tried, and failed, to get the right answer to is: Who are they?- the fabulous anonymities people refer to in saying, "This is what they are wearing." Was it Mrs. Harrison Williams, Wallis Windsor, the French designers, the Sophie Gimbels? Finally, she asked Sophie: "Are you a they?" Said Sophie: "We'll soon know. If I can resist the very long skirt trend, I'll be sure...
Father Lassalle began his mission with gingerly diplomacy. In speeches to Brazil's Japanese colonies, he would refer to the presence of U.S. troops in Japan, the civilian need for food & clothing, the fact that Japan still had a future, after all. But after he had finished talking, people would still go away saying to each other, "Well, you see-the Father did not actually say Japan had lost...
...voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind of a family are you getting mixed up with...
...Bugsy Siegel, problem child of the mobs . . . hit Page 1, as expected." He quoted one of his 1941 columns: "Secret of the unlimited cash of Virginia Hill, mystery girl who tossed bales of dough around Miami Beach this winter, is a Chicago bookmaker." The AP, however, gallantly continued to refer to her as an heiress...