Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to insincerity she scorned unintelligence, and was no respecter of persons in giving utterance to her scorn. "The Faculty," she said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...
...extracurricular activities, with the significant exception of the theatre, the opera, and the buying of books, has the response been similarly passive. And the conditions which are responsible for this seeming apathy can hardly be regretted, for they are the vindication of scholastic independence. If the answer to the call of the Phillips Brooks House has been largely that of echo, it is not an echo engendered in the vast purlieus of an empty reading room: if the Harvard undergraduate is refusing to teach the youth of the slums, all that can be deplored is his selfishness in preferring...
...usually for primitive reasons-to shoot or fish, to ski or skate, to eat, drink or make honeymoon. Secretary of State Kellogg had out his top hat and went to Canada last week. But his was a highly civilized reason. He went to pay back the ceremonious call which Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King paid the U. S. last autumn (TIME...
That sentence was rich reading and spiced bait for U. S. investors who may soon call up their brokers, crying: "Buy Wagons-Lits...
...King Alexander decides that, for the first time, he will call to the Premiership a statesman outstanding in the ranks of the "minority peoples" who cluster around the parent kingdom of Serbia.* His Majesty, not without guile, calls to the Premiership that fiery Croat, famed, boisterous, bibulous Stefan Raditch. The King, whose power is rooted in Serbia, knows that so erratic and frequently boozy a statesman will not lead the "minorities" into a commanding position...