Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole is concerned, in this part of the investigation is that it places the ameliorations before the public, not for the attention of the public but as the one way to communicate with all clubs as a corporate interest. And he it said that the CRIMSON wishes to call the attention of club members to the proposals of the Committee and to recommend their adoption as an enlargement of club benefits and a removal of ritual which has become declassee...
...business and disarming the world. Actually the task entrusted to the Preparatory Commission was to answer, "yes" or "no," to the question: "Can all the nations get together at a Disarmament Conference with sufficient chance of ultimate success to make it worth while for the League of Nations to call such a conference?" From "No" to "Not yet." A few years ago the only possible answer to the question faced by the Preparatory Commission would have been "No." When the delegates convened, a year ago, humans dared to hope their answer might be "Yes." Last week the Commission answered...
...Such things happen in Hungary, where certain ancient family strains have achieved notable degeneration. Perhaps it was by mere chance that Count Emerich Dagenfeldt went mad soon after Sari Fedak became mistress and then (after some six years) wife to Ferenc Molnar. Another question: The Court: "Did you really call the plaintiff 'that low down little Budapest cat'?" Sari Fedak: "I hardly know her well enough to call her that, but whatever I said, I said." The Court: "It is suggested by the plaintiff that you may wish to apologize." Sari Fedak: "What? Certainly...
...Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French aviatrix, was threatening to sue the Commission should its policy of excluding women as commercial pilots be continued. Mme. Boland claimed that dozens of French women...
...Everything 0. K.," cried the small man, dragging out a scrawled piece of paper, "me got what you call permit...