Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clubwomen enjoy straight-from-the-shoulder speaking. So they enjoyed perhaps most of all a characteristic chastisement from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who snapped: "We are too sentimental, too emotional. But if we did what we ought to do we would call together all the presidents of all women's organizations (there must be a million of them) and, meeting in one room in private, discuss some fundamental questions. They would be: 'Where are we at?,' 'How much of the work that we women do outside the home is just like a kitten chasing its tail...
Prediction. Said 93-year-old Chauncey Mitchell Depew last week: ". . . With a ringing speech by some leading Republican, I anticipate there will be a stampede, followed by a unanimous call to Mr. Coolidge to accept a renomination. I don't believe any human being could resist such a draft.... If I remember correctly I am the only man twice invited by acclamation to address a Republican National Convention, and without a time limit. I'd like to do it once more...
Farrington of Hawaii was in Washington last week to call on President Coolidge, confer with the State Department, refresh his memory of the capital whence comes his power, and to "talk up" Hawaii. He was asked (by pressmen) how he would like to be Governor General of the Philippines. Said he: "Why talk about impossibilities? I am building a house in Honolulu and I have a newspaper" there. I am perfectly satisfied where...
...Premier discussed onetime Premier MacDonald's invitation to call a general election, saying that he was too sporting an opponent to hit the Labor Party until it had a stronger issue than repeal of the Trades Union...
This dinner calls for an elaborate ritual. First one of the guests must "call the pudding down" and another guest must "lead the pudding in." After that it is carved and eaten with rare old liquers to "wash it down...