Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Senator Curtis ever enter the White House, it would round off a unique legend. In Kansas, they used to call "Charlie" Curtis names like "The Injun," "the Noble Red Man of the Forest" and "Lo!" His maternal grandmother, Julie Pappan, was an Indian squaw, a Kaw princess, daughter of Chief White Plume of the Kaws and granddaughter of potent Chief Pawhuskie of the Osages...
...often sarcastic, but more often kindly. His verse shows all these qualities; indeed, his poems form the epitome of his character. He has never been known to write a poem to order; the nearest approach he made to doing so was after the War, when the Armistice seemed to call for an heroic ode. which he penned and called Brittannia Victrix, and which is hardly characteristic of his works...
...Queen who sat beside Alice and yelled, "Faster, faster!" sits beside most automobile drivers of to-day and her call is no less potent because it is a silent one. The theory, if not the practice, of the idea that travel in the street is the right of the pedestrian and the privilege of the motorist has often been iterated. In an entire nation of increasingly nimble broken field runners there will be found few more ardent supporters of this civic principle than those members of Harvard College who are daily obliged to cross Harvard Square...
...citizens as stand pat for a stratified society topped by an aristocracy either of money or brains. They find the present form if not the present condition of government in the U. S. satisfactory on the whole. They think little of radical reformers. For various reasons, all would call Socialism "rot." Besides Banker Morgan, Blues include such assorted types as Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chairman William Morgan Butler of the G. O. P., William Wrigley Jr., William Randolph Hearst, James J. Tunney, Will Durant, Henry Louis Mencken, Walter P. Chrysler, Charles Albert Levine...
...represents funds that banks are willing to lend authoritative brokers in financing their transactions. There was a great deal of it available last week and the interest rate fell at one time to as low as 3½ per cent for this class of borrowing which is known as call money or short terms loans. Added to these funds were the payments made to share and bond holders, whose coupons were collectible at this quarter of the year. These payments amounted to approximately $300,000,000. Usually this money finds its way back into the market and acts...