Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faith whose custodians travel in a cream-colored limousine with a concert harp hitched on the rear. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ballard and Son Donald-as their printed literature invariably refers to them-claim to be the "Accredited Messengers" of a group of spirits whom they call the "Ascended Masters." These include Christ and Moses, but their most articulate spokesman is one "Saint Germain." St. Germain, says Mr. Ballard, appeared to him on Mt. Shasta eight years ago, gave him a drink of "creamy liquid" of which "the electrical vivifying effect on my mind made me gasp with surprise...
...doctors in the U. S. may call himself a specialist, and some 25,000 do. The American Medical Association takes the word of its members and lists them in the Directory as surgeons, or public health specialists, or obstetricians, sensitively differentiating ophthalmologists (eyes) and otorhinolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat) from ophthalmo-otorhino-laryngologists (eye-ear-nose-throat). Chief criterion for specialists, other than their say-so, has been membership in one of the multitude of learned societies in Canada or the U. S.. such as the American Association of Obstetricians. Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons, or the Central Society for Clinical Research...
These quarters the editors shared with the newborn Saturday Review of Literature. Partitions between the two offices did not reach to the ceiling and sometimes TIME'S editors were disturbed by jovial Christopher Morley coming to call on the Saturday Review's editors (Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Amy Loveman, William Rose Benét), bringing his welcome in the form of a bottle of whiskey which he opened by pounding on a desk until its cork came...
...this month showed few that were definitely bad, it also had few that addicts could call first-rate. In the category of acceptable they put items like Laurence Dwight Smith's Death Is Thy Neighbor, Nard Jones's The Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...
...hill a couple of miles beyond the suburbs of Chillicothe, Ohio (pop. 18,340) is a 63-acre farm with a hundred-year-old stone house, Oak Hill. Its inhabitants are 34-year-old Charles Allen Smart and his wife. They call themselves plain farmers...