Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to tossing off a round phrase of his own or snagging a quote from Shakespeare, John Llewellyn Lewis likes nothing more than to be shaved in bed. At times of stress, he indulges this soothing fancy whenever a barber is within telephone call...
...violinist son of a Norwegian blacksmith, Dr. Christiansen came to the U. S. from Larvik, Norway, went to St. Olaf College 26 years ago as head of the music department. Since then he has become the college's most respected figure, and though St. Olaf's youngsters call him "Christy" behind his back, they would never dare address him as anything but Dr. Christiansen...
...23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive and perhaps useless luxury. Independent old Mr. Sargent seconded the motion, thereby braved brickbats from his patrons...
...wanted to know if there was anything in Catholicism which stood in the way of any person who believed in political and economic progressivism. And my friend smiled and answered: 'Don't you realize that you're a little naïve, Heywood? You like to call yourself a radical, but the doctrines of the Church to which I belong imply so many deep changes in human relationship that when they are accomplished-and they will be-your own notions will be nothing more than an outmoded pink liberalism...
Clifford Oral McCreedy of Aledo, Ill, is a careful country doctor. Last week he paid a call, lanced an abscess for a patient and, when he was through, took a proper precaution. He did not put the infected scalpel with the sterilized instruments in his bag. He wrapped it in a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move...