Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be simpler to call him Mercury...
Regarding the suicide plunge of John William Warde from the ledge of a hotel window [TIME, Aug. 8], may I suggest how to handle such cases in the future? Call out the fire department; deluge the waiting, watching mob with high-pressure streams of water. This would have three salutary effects: 1) wash away the morbidity of the mob; 2) clear the streets for traffic; 3) divert the would-be suicide's attention from his own real or fancied woes. Turn about is fair play...
Psychologists call it Schizoidmaniacism, but John William Warde, standing at the brink of death was just a peeved little boy. And like any severely spanked little boy, wanting sympathy, he took the colossal modern manner of calling attention to his troubles. That he should carry out his grand gesture, is the fault of the City Fathers who turned this little-boy prank into a three-ring circus, by roping off the streets and permitting photographers to lie untrampled on their backs, instead of keeping lanes open and business functioning as usual. Newspapers and national broadcasters screamed invitations...
...Call me Mr. Roberts,"* said Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Owen Josephus Roberts, a democratic Republican, to his steward as he sailed for Europe on the S. S. Statendam...
When a crowd of passengers on a burning ship jumps overboard, when schoolboys go calmly through a fire drill, when four clubmen stage a drinking spree, when a mob of strikers overturns police cars, social psychologists call it collective behavior. Its special attribute is that the behavior of one individual affects, and is affected by, the behavior of others. It is almost impossible for human beings to come within shouting distance of one another without manifesting collective behavior...