Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant rumor came from Mr. Hoover. Newsmen asked him whether he would see President-Reject Smith. To the query the President-Elect replied: "By all means I should be glad if Governor Smith has the time to call. I should be most happy...
Despite all his obsessions and oppressions, Rome's citizens, soldiers and provincials admired Caligula. That was not his real name. His real name was Gaius Caesar. But, because he was charming as a little boy when he plopped in soldiers' boots along the Rhine with his father Germanicus, everyone called him, and con tinued to call him through his short life, Caligula. Caligula means "Little Boots...
There are still too many people who boast to have gone to school with Mussolini, or to have shared a meal with him, or to have offered him a cigaret in some railway compartment. There are still too many people, who, in speaking of the "Duce," call him simply Benito. There are jar too many who assert to be on terms of intimacy with him. It is high time to declare before all the world that Benito does not exist any more. Today Mussolini must be known as the "Duce" and only as the "Duce." Nobody has any right...
...which times a student would always feel at liberty to visit. During his residence in Stoughton Hall, Peterkin tried this system, and found it worked very well. Many students paid regular visits, while others dropped in casually for a chat after the theatre, or to pay a short evening call...
...always tell Louie's courses. He writes straight across both pages. Sometimes he takes the appendix home. I call him Doe when he does that--kidding. He got A in Ec A. That's a guy with imagination Joe. He goes back, he told me, sometimes as long as a year afterward and changes his handwriting and writes answers to his old gags...