Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber of Deputies last week, waiting to take their oaths of office. Each deputy was resplendent in dress suit and white gloves. "Gentlemen!" boomed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, "His Majesty the King invites you to be seated!" They sat. He read the oath of office. He began to call the roll. Like clockwork, as each name was barked, a white-gloved hand shot up in the Fascist salute, and the deputy in question shouted "Giuro!" ("I swear!"). Straight down the roll to "M" read Il Duce, never moving a muscle until he came to his own name. "Mussolini!"-his right...
Said Father Allen: "One day you and I will stand before the judgment seat of God. Then the Lord will say to me, 'Father Allen, did I not call you to go to Africa?' I shall answer, 'Yes. Lord.' Then he will say, 'Why did you not go?' I shall answer, 'There stands the Bishop...
...chances are that Coach Mitchell will call upon either W. H. MacHale '31 or R. R. Ketchum '29 to face the Lord Jeffs while the visitors will be represented on the mound by either Pratt or Nichols...
Little Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians lay abed in Vienna last fortnight with a pain in the ear, and in Bulgaria many a cafe owner knew not what to call his groggery and it all seemed to be the Pope's fault...
...ears of little Tsar Boris were soon well enough to permit his visiting Berlin, where he paid a formal call on President von Hindenburg, and the old warrior, convalescent himself from a light attack of influenza, received Tsar Boris in his bedroom...