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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startling was the success of the project, for 150 misses answered the phone, and none hung up. All asked, that the potential escorts call to be reconnoitered. The Freshmen will visit the first two on the list this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONELY FRESHMEN DISCOVER DANCE DATES IN PHONEBOOK | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...generals on these points last week, and apparently General von Fritsch thought he had the Führer at the point of capitulation, the whole course of current German history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander-in-chief, was soon reported placed under arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Purge No. 2 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Inferior to Strindberg's The Father and Lady Julia, The Bridal Crown needs miraculously controlled acting to stay within bounds. Except for Aurora Bonney, the cast snubbed all current theories of acting, kept declaiming as from the scaffold, made a stage whisper sound like a call to arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...theatre because, while it has high temperatures of rage and subnormal chills of scorn, it seldom strikes the 98.6° of ordinary human emotion. But what Broadway saw last week was a story which, though it lacks tremolo, shrills along as vibrant and masculine as a trumpet call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...vice president of Marshall Field & Co. and general manager of the manufacturing division, effective Jan. 31. He came with Marshall Field & Co. in November, 1935 at the request of Mr. James O. McKinsey when Mr. McKinsey became chairman of the board of directors. Plans of the present Corporate Management call for material changes from the program and organization conceived by Mr. McKinsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sour Grapes | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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