Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made it clear to the family that just because I had a phone, they needn't think they had to call me every night. Also I rejected the idea of their sending up a bedspread, because I haven't seen one on my roommate's bed, nor on the beds of the fellows across the hall. College men just don't use those things; the family will have to realize that...
Late tonight my roommate still had my shirt on. I finally asked him what we should call the maid, and he said: "Biddie." Tomorrow I must do some research to see if this is a peculiar New England appellation...
Although nobody except the "President, tutors, and professors" were allowed to use "threats and blows" to compel Freshmen to work, if a present Yardling were to be transported back two centuries in time he would hardly call his position a bed of roses...
Almost everybody has seen it. In a few days they are going to call in the Physics Department and ask for an explanation...
...early morning hour, Hollywood police received a call from oldtime Funnyman W. C. Fields, now 58, who said his butler and his secretary, pretty Carlotta Monti, were having a big argument in his hallway. He wanted it stopped. When police arrived at Funnyman Fields's house, he and his secretary were in their rooms and the butler said it was all a mistake. Few minutes later police returned to find all three spatting in the hallway. Howled Funnyman Fields: "It's all right to argue in the daytime, but I want peace and quiet at night. She came...