Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all due regard to editors & their right to interpret Webster in various ways; I cannot see how anyone-if they read Scarlet Sister Mary-could by any chance call Scarlet Sister Mary a prostitute...
Originated as a patriotic order, the Society of Tammany in Manhattan makes a great to-do over Independence Day. On that day last week the city's Democratic politicians crowded into their hall to hear New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt call for a new "Declaration of Independence" against "Centralized Industrial Control" in the form of corporation mergers...
When Marie of Rumania made her famed U. S. tour (1926), Her Majesty was scheduled to appear over the National Broadcasting Co.'s chain. She was to give one of her many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a half-hour before her time, indignantly departed when informed that she could not immediately go on the air. Radio men, including Mr. Sarnoff, followed her to Manhattan's Ambassador, argued earnestly, then acidly. When it was pointed out that Her Majesty was accustomed to having her will accepted...
...interests, giving authentic reports of the industry. The late great William Ewart Gladstone was his close friend, as were Tory Stanley Baldwin, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald and, of course, Liberal Leader Lloyd George. But more proud is he of friendships among other journalists, those from competing and antagonistic newspapers. They call him "The Grand Old Man of English Journalism." Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects on his last visit to England. Not wealthy, he resides modestly in suburban Manchester, browses there among his books. Each day he bicycles to the office, waving...
People who contribute to newspaper columns are very free with their signatures. Some make free with great names, sign themselves "Napoleon," "George Washington," "Calvin Coolidge." Others make free to be funny and call themselves names like Oscar Zilch, Wilton F. Cassowary, Ivan Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare...