Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marquess of Reading, onetime Viceroy of India (1921-26): "The comparative failure of other agreements to give Europe the sense of security essential to disarmament and permanent peace I lay to the fact that America refused to be a party to those covenants and conventions. . . . That is why I call the proposal of the United States the greatest forward movement that has yet been made toward World Peace. . . . America is coming...
...When you receive this I will have marched to the Northern front with my battalion at the call of my country...
Ellen Terry was born, as it were, between an exit and a curtain call, while her mother and father were playing in Coventry. At eight she made her debut as Mamillius in The Winter's Tale, a performance witnessed with apparent pleasure by Queen Victoria. When Ellen Terry was twice as old she married the then famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith...
Amadeo Peter Giannini convalesces in an ancient princely villa on Lake Nerni, near Rome. There to newsmen he said last week: "Call me 'A. P.,' simply and Americanly...
...make them addicts of a particular brand. Manufacturers have appealed, variously, to vanity, comfort, whimsy. To the Palmolive-Peet Company, vanity appears the chief factor in the public's soap-buying. Women are urged to "keep that schoolgirl complexion." A faint odor of promiscuity hangs over the seductive call of Woodbury's Facial Soap-"A Skin You Love to Touch." But the forthrightness of the Woodbury laboratories (N. Y.), is reestablished by the picture of Founder John H. Woodbury, minus neck,* appearing on each package...