Word: referring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your letter column-July 4-G. H. Greene and J. W. Vander refer to TIME's orange border as "red." It is orange, isn't it- or am I color blind ? HARRIET INGERSOLL Saint Paul, Minn. The border is red. But the red ink is printed over yellow. Exposure to much dampness or sun light would fade it orange. How to say where orange ends, where red begins ? -ED. "Dilly Dow" That the umbrageous name of Cyril H. D. G. Dillington-Dowse, who pays his vitriolic tribute to the illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June...
...most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing at Washington, that the flood of 1927, while a terribly regrettable incident, is really over and that there is not much use crying over spilled water. In Louisiana, the flood is still a very live issue; nor is there any tendency to refer to it in the past tense...
Sirs: . . . Would suggest that FOREIGN NEWS confine itself to less trivial items. Refer TIME, April 4, COMMONWEALTH. Largely the fact that Friend Peel opens a road house ia of no particular interest or influence to anybody; as a sign of changed times that the type of thing is already history...
TIME prides itself on its accuracy. TIME therefore will, no doubt, be glad to refer back to p. 14, of TIME, May 9, where there was a paragraph called "Vanishing Coat" telling how David Lloyd George had had his coat stolen whilst dining at the Savoy...
...note in TIME, May 16 that you refer to my 70th birthday anniversary as being celebrated with "able handsprings and head-springs," and the erudite commenter in a footnote says that the latter "is a spring performed by lying on the back and then jumping to the feet, the weight of the body coming at first upon the head and shoulders...