Word: callin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Robinson, 67-year-old past master of tap, now dancing on Broadway, told an interviewer that his real name was Luther, and recalled how he had changed it: "I said to myself, 'I'll never go about the world with nobody callin' me Luther,' so I caught my brother whose name was Bill and I gave him a good whippin'. I told him that from now on his name was Percy and mine was Bill. He's in North Carolina how, and he's still Percy Robinson...
...King's Own Scottish Borderers, now deaf, blind and 88 years old, reported. He had spent 55 years in the British Army, 13 years in the Burma police, learned ''what the ten-year soldier tells: 'If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else...