Word: refreshing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recess Mr. Sheaffer returned with amended testimony. Chairman Black shot at him: "Where'd you go for lunch?" The witness flushed, stammered, admitted he had lunched with officials involved in the transaction under investigation. Later Mr. Sheaffer had to resort frequently to a briefcase full of papers to refresh his memory. Chairman Black in terrupted: "Suppose you let us take a look at those records. Mr. Sheaffer. Just hand them up here. All of them." Aghast, the witness obeyed. A committee investigator ruffled through the papers, finally-handed one to the chairman. In a few minutes press wires were...
...causes and effects of the fantastic people and events he sets down for us in his reportorial style. He presents his factual data and is quite content with that alone. The journalistic tendency is marked because it is probable the author has made extensive use of newspaper files to refresh his memory. Facetiously, one might say, "this cop remembers" with the excellent aid of police records and the friends he has made during the length of his career...
During the Napoleonic Wars the British captured a French senior officer named Charles Sandré, sent him to Dartmoor Prison. While his comrades marched and countermarched across Europe, he could see them all in his mind's eye, every rank, every regiment, from drummer boy to Bonaparte. To refresh his memory there were 47,000 other French prisoners in Britain. He began to make a complete set of 16-in. toy models of what...
...Senate floor. Later Indiana's crude Robin- son flayed the Ambassador as a "lobbyist" for debt cancelation. Arkansas' Robinson promptly admitted that he had made a "mistake" in taking Sir Ronald on the floor, explained: "It was an unintentional disregard of the Senate rules. T did not refresh myself on them. The subject of international debts was not mentioned, much less discussed...
...which mangled one of the better odes of Horace, and from time to time made impatient corrections in the well-modulated clipped syllables which only an Englishman can acquire from Oxford. As he turned the pages with his pale fingers he wondered vaguely what sort of a meal would refresh him at one o'clock...