Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much, too much, etc. If, as Pastor Rudy praises, the Senator showed "unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy," may I timidly wonder what unfortunate accident transmuted those "remarkable" brains into a mess of something that (if it were lady-like to call names) I should follow the menu cards to describe as Calves Brains, Scrambled...
...favor of Candidate Lowden, still the first actual balloting in the 1928 election had gone Hoover. Voters talked about it in other States and told each other what they knew about the Republican party's man-of-all-work whose friends now think he should be, as they call him at the Department of Commerce, "the Chief...
...system when coolly viewed offers untold possibilities at Harvard. If a students considers that he has been hardily dealt with by an unbending professor, he gathers his band and goes to pay the professor a call. Half an hour later he comes out with his mark raised to a substantial B. The one objection would be that the band would probably charge more than the Widow's though to be sure the effort would not cost the student such mental agony...
...simple plot; but within it are the jungle blues, the swaying bodies, the early-morning smells of Harlem-tied together by an urban Negro's unmistakable contempt for all things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...
...clock tonight, the CRIMSON will issue its final call for candidates for the current academic year. Candidates from the classes of 1931 and 1930 will then meet at the Crimson Building, 14 Plympton Street, for the inauguration of a nine weeks competition, broken by the spring recess. The competition will end early enough to provide ample time for study before final examinations...