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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 15 Varsity and Freshmen lacrosse candidates greeted the call for Fall practice issued by Coach John J. Witherspoon 21, a former all-American who will direct the Freshmen team this Spring. The main purpose of the practice is to instruct the Freshmen, whether inexperienced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Lacrosse Starts | 10/18/1938 | See Source »

...Girl" have turned an amusing newspaper yarn into a play that is as illogical and hilarious as most of their writings. An ace correspondent (William Gaxton) undertakes to win for his chief (Edward H. Robbins) the job of ambassador to Russia by discrediting the incumbent, Alonzo P. ("My friends call me 'Stinky'") Goddhe, who is portrayed by Victor Moore. The task turns out to be more than Gaxton had anticipated even with Mr. Moore's complete cooperation until he finally abandons the assignment and tries to make his victim the best-loved diplomat in the world Mr. Moore is immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/18/1938 | See Source »

...tallest ambassador, six-foot-four-inch Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. has spent the past four years of his diplomatic life in Egypt, until last week he put little stock in the accepted Egyptian method of removing snakes from a household. Proper procedure for this everyday occurrence is to call a professional snake charmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Ambassador's Snakes | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...recently found their summer villa infested with hooded cobras the ambassador determined to remove them his own way. But the native servants refused to go near the reptiles and Sir Miles's British tactics failed to chase the snakes off. Last week he admitted defeat, sent out a call for the neighborhood snake charmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Ambassador's Snakes | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...year life of these bonds, take advantage, as it otherwise could, of lower bond prices in future years in purchasing bonds for the sinking fund, for it is safe to say that none of this small group of private buyers would sell their bonds for less than the call price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: New Tri | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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