Word: referse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently Max Feckler (TIME, July 15) is a little confused in his own argot or lingo. First, he refers to the trainride-stealing American bum, and then refers to him as a hobo. There is no connection whatsoever between a bum and a hobo.
Mr. Packard refers to the British press as "Government and Peer-subsidized." Will TIME please devote the necessary ½ of an inch of space to a list of the U. S. A. newspapers which are not at the heel of one or other of your political parties?
Ask a Lover Sirs: The "eyes'' have it. Some hundreds of years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci, who was an inventor, engineer, poet, sculptor, musician and painter-and therefore qualified to speak-had an argument with a poet on the streets of Florence, as to the relative strength of...
Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other...
Mr. Williams, however, is too optimistic in his general observations upon the success of the House plan and its long endurance. It is just as possible that many who favor the plan are influenced by lack of information as those who oppose it. He is certainly true when he says...