Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week before the funeral Governor Browning had a telephone call from Charles West, Under Secretary of the Interior who runs many of Franklin Roosevelt's errands at the Capitol. Mr. West gave him to understand that the President wanted to see him right away before he appointed a new Senator. Governor Browning was going to Washington anyhow to attend a conference of Southern Governors and utilities commissioners. When he shook off the crowd of politicians at the funeral and boarded his train East, whom should he find but one of the mourners. Representative Samuel D. McReynolds of Chattanooga...
...chewing gum in class. But when several Northampton residents once complained that his girls should pull their shades down at night before undressing, President Neilson observed that they should pull down their own instead. Once a particularly conspicuous wave of amatory misbehavior moved Smith's administration to call a compulsory chapel. President Neilson appeared, cocked his head to one side, and instead of delivering the expected lecture remarked: "If you must kiss men, you will do well to pick gentlemen. They never tell...
Furthermore the story which the better half of "Me and Paul" narrated at the Yardling annual was very much apropos. Had wily Scot McKechnie been able to call upon a black Frank Merriwell in the stands, he might well have used the slugger in place of Vincent DiMaggio's fourth appearance at the platter. For after disturbing the ozone on three previous third strikes, Vince was called out the last time...
Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore turn in their usual fine performances and play no small part in making this picture laugh provoking. Gershwin music is hard to catch, but two numbers, "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," and "You Can't Take That Away From Me," immediately set the audience humming...
...Process and Reality, Science and the Modern World; and the little essays: Nature and Life, which unfortunately Santayana has not seen. One cannot say that Professor Whitehead and Santayana are in philosophical agreement on many points. But I can assure you in one way they're absolutely alike: Both call Bertram Russell, "Berty". But even here all is not clear: For I understood from Santayana that it was he who gave Mr. Russell that name; but if I remember correctly Professor Whitehead told me that he himself first called Russell "Berty". It seems to me this is a unique opportunity...