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Word: calling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour of the four months while he was engaged in the flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barbershop Talk | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...National W. C. T. U. last week issued a call to prayer, an hour of prayer, on Nov. 5, election eve. "Great issues are at stake and there is need for prayer for Divine guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: W. C. T. U. | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Indiana issued a call-to-prayer on the eve of the Houston convention. That call said: "Get Down On Your Knees And Pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: W. C. T. U. | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Therefore Jews throughout the world heeded the call of Colonel Kook, last week, fasted for a day, mourned exceedingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy of Holies | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Interceding in a gas-torch week that has witnessed the call and dusty answer of the several warring political greats, a football game, strange anomaly, provides a breathing spell. Twenty-five years of Stadium tradition are rounded out in this afternoon's Dartmouth gridiron appearance. Athletics were a casual pastime when the men from Hanover first came to Cambridge; it was that long ago. And yet, such is the effect of partial anti-climax, popular and newspaper hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: InterLude | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

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