Word: referring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word dirigible is popularly and inaccurately used to refer to a rigid airship. Correctly, dirigible is an adjective describing any lighter-than-air craft with a propelling and steering system. *One of the competitors is American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., which employs famed Capt. Anton Heinen, designer of several Zeppelins and the ill-fated Shenandoah...
...outworn mode, a pea dropped from her fork would roll to the table (or carpet) without interruption. But dressed in the 1928 silhouette, she might retrieve the pea in the ruffles at her neck, in a bow or a flounce on her skirt. Adopting the broken silhouette, dressmakers refer the dubious to modern architecture, pointing to jagged, jutting lines of skyscrapers...
...kiss. . . . We shall, as Democrats, have at least one advantage-we won't have to kiss in the dark. You see, we haven't revoked the segregation law." "There was one piece of sardonic humor in the events at the Republican Convention at Kansas City. I refer to that plank in the Republican platform in which they say, 'We stand for honesty in Government.' Now, why bring that up?" "Senator Borah wants to refund the wages of sin, but how in hell does Borah know they ain't gonna steal no more?" "Hays improved...
...luncheon, dismissed. It did leak out that the Hoover campaign is to be a businesslike affair, based on the Coolidge record, with no mudslinging at the Democrats countenanced or tolerated. Senator Moses said: "When we begin to campaign . . . we won't call him 'AP but we will refer to him as the governor of New York...
...spite of our private shelves of volumes, in spite of our wonderful library with its millions of tomes, its acreage of information--there is one wholly extraneous class of printed matter that in time consumed and interest manifested can be said to equal even our beloved books. I refer, of course, to the daily newspapers...