Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True, the Japanese refer to Fujiyama as Fujisan; but san in this case means mountain (as does yama) and is written with a character quite different from the san meaning Mr., Mrs. or Miss...
...subscriber and reader of TIME for many years, I could not help but note your article on p. 10 of the issue of July 31, in which you refer to Honorable Dennis Chavez, U. S. Senator from New Mexico, as "New Mexico's other, but unadmired, Senator: tea-colored Dennis Chavez...
...inflaming the fears and passions of our people." In April, on a nationwide radio hookup, he begged "an end to all this war talk." In May his committee was offering $100 prizes for essays on "Why America Should Keep Out of Foreign Wars," and Congressmen were beginning to refer to their alarmed colleague as a "Leader of the Ostrich Bloc...
...person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work on Mr. Hoover's behalf prior to the 1928 Republican convention...
Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...