Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
...whole truth [about corrupt Indiana politics], regardless of whom it may affect and whatever it may cost ... he will have performed a public service that will do much to wipe out the stain upon his own name." Indeed soon after his release, the Marion Grand Jury† planned to call Mr. McCray to testify on the subject of the Klu Klux Klan offer alleged to have been made by present Governor of Indiana Ed Jackson...
Firearms. The National Association of Attorneys General passed a resolution asking the President to call a conference of state governors to regulate the use of firearms. The same body was asked to resolve, but did not, in commendation of Massachusetts' conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
Concerning the instinctive basis for laughter, Dr. Bolton said: "Laughter is a form of expression denoting the culmination of some conquest or struggle . . . also the expression of a vicarious triumph. ... It is a phenomenon of triumph. . . . What we generally call laughter is the expression of a coarse emotion which, as culture increases, is reformed to the form of a smile. Smiling, therefore, is not the expression of an opposite emotion, as Professor Aveling avers, but simply a refined and secondary development of laughter...
...first Sunday of each month hereafter, said the cards, let any person call the Delia Vecchia garage and a Delia Vecchia cab will promptly call for him and take him, free of charge, to "the first mass only...