Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a lot of horse-doctors among your readers. Call a horse a mare, once in a while...
What disgruntled Red agitators call "the slave mentality of British workingmen" was exhibited at Swansea, Wales, last week, when the 75th ("Diamond Jubilee") British Trade Union Congress (representing all the major unions), was called to order by a onetime weaver, Ben Turner, a snowy bearded patriarch of 65, always "Ben," never "Bennie...
...synagogue the rabbi stands before his people like a Semitic tribal chief. Sunset falls. The rabbi picks up a yellowed ram's horn and tongues it into the cadences of the TEKIAH. It is the call to Jews, their reminder that God created the world out of a void and howling darkness 5,689 years ago. Rosh Hashonah, the New Year, opens; the Book of Life is closed upon the passed year...
This establishes an opening price. But no actual trading will be done until the secretary has finished reading off the list of months, from October to April. When the "call" has been read, when a quotation has been fixed for delivery of silk in each of the next eight months, the men seated at the "ring" will begin to buy and sell. At the close of the day, the last quotations will be chalked up on a blackboard. On the following day, traders may not advance or lower these quotations (per pound) by more than 50?. Thus the exchange authorities...
...Dine, author of The Benson Murder Case, The "Canary" Murder Case, The Greene Murder Case, is not S. S. Van Dine. But he does wear a Van Dyke beard. Also he confesses in the September American Magazine: "I am 39 years old-oh. well, call it 40, since my birthday falls next month. ... I have written since the age of four, when a poem of mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went...