Word: called
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the northlands, southlands, eastlands and westlands you came at the call of my horn! I have buried this golden hatchet, the emblem of war, enmity and bad feeling. From now on the Scout symbol of peace is a golden arrow. I send you back to your homelands as ambassadors of peace...
Citizens of pastoral Liechtenstein-minute, autonomous, mountain-hemmed, principality adjoining Switzerland-had every right, last week, to call their new ruler, Prince Franz, a harum scarum...
...Falke was supposed to call at Las Palmas, Canary Islands for orders. She went nowhere near the Canaries. Capt. Tipplitt turned her nose straight for the coast of Venezuela. Soon the crew learned the truth. The 125 passengers were revolutionists, many of them Generals, under the command of General Romano Delgado Chalbaud, exiled former chief of the Venezuelan Navy. The baggage and boxes of the revolutionists contained rifles, machine guns, ammunition. Capt. Tipplitt was in their pay. The Falke's job was to raid the coast of Venezuela...
Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier on the children...
Much has he traveled, many are the famed people he has met. In Milwaukee, where he has an agency, he headed the Lindbergh reception committee two years ago. The policemen there call him "C. C." Though not feeling well one day in Rome, he won a bet by getting an audience with the Pope on 24-hours' notice. He has hand-shaken Mussolini. He also tells how, slipping into an exclusive London night club, he and Mrs. Younggreen came face to face with Edward of Wales. "My wife," says Mr. Younggreen, "touched the Prince...