Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, Mr. Wm. M. Duff, in talking about reading the right kind of books, papers, magazines, etc., mentioned especially TIME. I (Continued on p. 29) personally remarked that I had been an original subscriber. We asked for a call of hands and found that fourteen of the twenty-seven are subscribers to your magazine and everyone was very enthusiastic in his endorsement. C. J. WESTERMANN...
...candidate in a debate on a subject to be drawn from contemporary French politics, the trials to be conducted in English. The administration for awarding the prize is in the hands of the French Department of the University, which under the terms of the competition is at liberty to call in the aid of other instructors...
...have three coats, each owning one and sharing the third equally, they may take money from their pockets and put it into their other pockets in such ways that wise men will not know whether to call them fools, thieves or geniuses...
...Comfort for Britons lay in the small success achieved by Swarajist leaders, last week, in organizing a hartal or "strike in mourning" against the Commission. Most industrial workers who struck at all struck for only part of one day, and a large majority of Indian shop-keepers ignored the call to close their shops. Many riots were characteristically not between Indians and the police but between Non-Co-operators and other Indians who preferred to go about their business...
...which was started in the early 80's and thrived thereafter under Gustavus T. Kirby, was a far more pretentious organization. Its evening auction sales of paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...