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Word: callers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calling, contrary to the notions of most city folk, is a practical necessity on farms, only becomes a standard sport at fairs throughout the U. S. Hog-callers make a noise whose nearest printable equivalent is "Su-ee Su-ee Su-ee-Pig-ee Pig-ee Pig-ee." If done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Variations | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Dictator, noting a button off his Bolshevik caller's shirt, pointed out the deficiency with bantering reproof: "So, Comrade, you call yourself a cultured man!" Cracked back the Soviet journalist, according to his story: "It is easier to buy a tractor in Russia than to buy a button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Button Culture | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...because I don't swim, although I like to float. Don't call me 'Excellency' or use my title 'Bey.' Just call me Mr. Youssef." Bay Ridgers soon discovered that Ambassador Troyanovsky serves tea and tinfoil wrapped Soviet candies to almost any caller, that Minister Youssef, although a teetotaler, is good for a Scotch and soda while he vividly describes how he founded the Egyptian consumer co-operatives and forced down food costs for the masses by as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT-RUSSIA: Beautiful Bay Ridge | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Greek Minister to Great Britain. He discovered to his chagrin that George II was exchanging cables privately with the head of another group of Greek Royalists who want parliamentary government instead of Kondylis' Dictatorship. They are headed by onetime Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Last week in Athens a frequent caller at Tsaldaris' house was Britain's Minister to Greece, Sydney Philip Waterlow. Slowly it dawned on General Kondylis that he, pro-Italian, Dictator and Kingmaker, had made the worst possible choice of King for his purposes. Of mixed Danish-German-Russian royal blood, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: By the Grace of God | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

With Moseley and Ziggy resting, the first-team backfield was a nondescript aggregation, quartered by George Hedblom in the bucking back position. Only one shift of importance was made when George Roberts, former Milton Academy quarterback, was boosted from the Jayvee squad to signal caller on the Varsity B team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALEY ASSISTS AS HARLOW HAS LONG SECRET PRACTICE | 10/8/1935 | See Source »

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