Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directorship meant no immediate labor for Mr. Smith. Like President-Elect Hoover, he departed for a southern vacation. His itinerary called for visits with friend Carl Espy in Savannah, Ga., potato Tycoon Frank W. Nix in St. Augustine, Fla., Circusman John Ringling in Sarasota, Fla. Most of the six weeks he will spend near Miami. Asked if he intended to call on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Smith said: "That will be news when...
...call it the Second Dawes Committee, gentlemen, that will ensure the continuity of your files, and of the entire bibliography of the subject...
...know that this so-called German Grand Opera Company is again an enterprise of Mr. Blumental's. As soon as we heard about our name 'Bayreuth' being brought into connection with this, we wrote to Mr. Blumental strickly forbidding him to call his company anything like Bayreuth! He sent us a very old dirty looking visiting card with his name and the words 'German Opera Company' to reassure us that he was not misusing the word Bayreuth. This Prospectus again shows us that this Grand German Opera Company is working with our name...
...Commissioner James Hay left the room to answer it. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went on talking for a minute or two; then wearily he sat down. When Commissioner Hay returned, even the most phlegmatic councilman could spot him as a bearer of bad tidings. From London had come a trunk call. Gen. Booth had gone to law, obtaining a temporary injunction which forbade the council to elect a successor to his deposed self...
...second and most important half of the University hockey season will get under way next Wednesday, when the first practice since the beginning of the examination period will call Harvard hockey players from their mid-year hibernation...