Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were," said Captain Dollar. Though most shippers in western waters thought we were a long way behind or ahead of where we were, Captain Dollar started in 1924 a service of ships named after Presidents, carrying passengers and cargoes round the world from New York with 21 ports of call...
Those gentlemen who find it amusing or profitable to judge each race by an absolute standard, and call one people art-loving, another frivolous, a third conservative--and such persons include most authors, from newspaper correspondents to popular biographers--have had rather a hard task in re-cutting and pasting together post-war Germany to make it fit into its pigeon-hole. In the war years, and previous to them, it was easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite...
...ambitious candidates going through their paces in every room in Sever, and English A sections changed to more debating practise: a gloomy outlook, but the unavoidable result unless the process thus initiated is checked. In the interests of already overworked sporting editors, the coaches should reconsider their decision, and call a halt before it is too late...
...Tall call boys on platforms, before stock price recording boards in brokerage offices abbreviate in order to keep up with racing tickers. Allied Chemical and Dye is cried: "Acid," Texas Gulf Sulphur "Tiger Lily," Bethlehem Steel "Betsy Steel," Southern Pacific "Soup," Standard Oil of New Jersey "John...
...white is 'colored.' If an in dividual is a Negro, call him that...