Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boris cast an anxious eye out of the S Street window. It looked like rain. Boris is a Serbian who lost his last name in the war. He works as valet for a big, thickset, friendly-faced engineer whose friends and helpers all call him The Chief...
Boris listened to Reed Smoot call Charles Curtis "A child of the Wrest." He saw an attendant bend Time to the Constitution by setting back the Senate clock first ten minutes, then seven, to keep its hands from reaching noon too soon. Microphones were scattered about everywhere. In a glass booth David Lawrence of the United States Daily was telling the world...
That, and the political debt owed him by President Hoover, were partly what made the Republican New York Evening Post call his "a rather ignoble appointment...
...tell you all about Peter Pan--the boy who wouldn't grow up. Well, kiddies, Peter was sent to college; and that was just ideal. For of course, at college one doesn't work; one just pretends to be sophisticated; one doesn't grow up,--one becomes what some call indifferent. This was wonderful for Peter, for he didn't want ever...
Come, stir your souls with our ringing call...