Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After that we put out a chorus call From 300 to 400 girls answer that: most of them entirely unqualified. They come from offices, restaurants, everywhere. From this group we select about 100 and put them into practice clothes. When they are in practice costume, we see knock-knees, bowlegs, and what not. About 50 of them are finally retained...
...call me Master and Lord: and ye say well...
Sixty-five years ago, when Alice Pleasance Liddell was 12 years old, she used often to talk to a friend of her father's called Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was an instructor in mathematics at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford. Alice Liddell's father, a member of the team of Liddell and Scott, famed in all schools and colleges for their Greek Lexicon, was Dean of Christ Church. Mr. Dodgson too had done some writing. Some of it, mathematical treatises and such, he had published under his own name. Other and lighter works, such...
...Southern wanderings of the Crimson athlete are over, and the college now awaits only the umpire's call to bat and the crack of the starter's gun to see the multifold activity of spring sport life again in full swing...
Earlier in the day the Senator gave an interview to a CRIMSON reporter, and when the question of corruption, as exposed in the government was mentioned, Senator Walsh made it clear that the situation does not call for legislation at all, but strict enforcement of the laws already on the statue books. "We have all the laws we need," said the Senator, smiling. "All we need is honestly to enforce them. That goes for prohibition as well as other laws...