Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state of many Indians,* spent last fortnight in a mist of political metaphysics. Four members of the Legislature accused Governor Henry S. Johnston of not being Governor. They said his secretary, small, attractive, dark-haired, formidable Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, was "Governor in fact." They asked Governor Johnston to call a special meeting of the Legislature to investigate himself (TIME, Dec. 5). How an alleged non-Governor could convene the Legislature, the legislators did not explain. Perhaps they thought Mr. Johnston would know because among his reputed misdemeanors was taking an interest in things psychic. But Mr. Johnston gave...
...legislators went on meeting, nevertheless, as the Legislature. The Senators voted 22 to 8 to constitute themselves a court of impeachment. Eighty Representatives answered a roll call, organized committees, voted to prohibit all other branches of the State Government from interfering with the proceedings of the House as an inquisitorial body. The Senate took a recess and waited for the House to bring in impeachment proceedings...
Governor Fields' last official act observed the tradition by virtue of which so many Kentuckians can call themselves "Colonel." He appointed Thomas P. Middleton, his state commissioner of securities, to be a Colonel on his staff for the few hours remaining. Col. Middleton was thus rewarded for faithful services. A more interesting example of the Colonel custom was the case of John William Stoll Jr. of Lexington, Ky., whose father is a potent banker. John William Stoll Jr. became a Colonel on the staff of onetime (1915-19) Governor Augustus Owsley Stanley at the age of two weeks...
...Round and 'round turns slowly a great skeletonized globe. Above it squats a dummy representing God. On three platforms near the periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...
...freezing slush of Massachusetts avenue would offer to progress of the wanderer's roller skates? Who would not weep to see him, lightly skimming along the boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those who are enjoying the advantages of the Reading. Period should spoil their books, lest, in fact, the Widener steps should become impracticably icy, that the Vagabond is leaving and for other reasons...