Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nectar is in the summing up of the performance of Mitzi, upon whose shoulders hangs the entire production. This lady, reminiscent of the Duncan sisters in "Topsy and Eva", is really highly amusing. Regardless of when she was at her prime, presumably before what Professor Merriman chooses to call "the late unpleasantness", she still can put her personality across. She knows how to act, and particularly how to act funny...
...long time Joie Ray was the best miler in the U. S. But he was more than that-he had what journalists call color. He would boast about what he was going to do and then he would do it. People called him "Chesty Joe" but they admired him and Ray kept on running and boasting and driving a taxicab in Chicago. Over a year ago he quit competition. Everyone said he was through. And then Ray announced that he was going to enter the 26-mile Boston Marathon on Patriots...
Persons of fashion use a strange adjective for the things which they consider as belonging properly to their environment; such things they call "smart." Less polished people use an adjective which is far more descriptive of smart things: they use the word "ritzy." The word is from the proper noun, Ritz; Ritz is the name of the smartest chain of hotels in the world...
Springfield has a strong pitching corps, and while Johnston is favored to start today's game, it is not at all impossible that Beach will be given the call over his team-mate. If Beach should be chosen to carry the Springfield hurling assignment, Putnam will replace Steeves behind the bat. HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Burns, c.f. l.f., Williamson Chase, 2b. c.f., Duncan Donaghy, s.s. 1b., Wood Lord, c. s.s., Davis Prior, 1b. r.f., Misar Whitney, 3b. 2b., James Jones, r.f. 3b., Craig Hardie, l.f. c., Steeves Cutts, p. p., Johnston
...Samborski '31 and W. H. MacHale '31 received the call for duty on the mount. The former started the contest, striking out eight Groton sluggers during his five innings of action. Five members of the schoolboy nine fanned at the offerings of MacHale during the last four frames...