Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaks and reads English but can read French and Latin as well, hopes to get into Oxford in three years. Last week, Sabu sailed on the Aquitania for his first visit to the U. S., in the course of which he will attend the première of Drums, call on Mrs. Roosevelt, meet Shirley Temple in Hollywood...
...sparkling citrus wine which Mr. Moore and his collaborator, Edward L. Gonyer, call Duo Carolus (freely translated, two dollars), is claimed by its makers to be almost indistinguishable from champagne. A connoisseur like Julian Street would probably not agree, but it takes only 60 days to make, in comparison with the four to six years necessary for real champagne. Duo Carolus costs $2 a fifth gallon as against $6.50 to $8 for a good bottle of imported grape champagne. Messrs. Moore and Gonyer plan to make 150,000 bottles a year...
...arrived late at Rotterdam, where was their annual marte or faire, so furnished with pictures (especially landskips and drolleries as they call those donnish representations) that I was amaz...
Automatic Canteen Co. of America distributes candy, nuts and gum through vending machines which its 1,000 employes must call canteens because their president, Nathaniel Leverone, secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, thinks vending machine sounds too much like slot machine. Of the 200,000 canteens in 44 States, about 98% are in factories. During the nine years his company has been going, President Leverone has noticed that canteen sales accurately reflect factory employment. Last fall, when the automobile plants began shutting down, canteen sales in Detroit fell from top of the list to the bottom. Once President Leverone...
Asked what he was going to call the two satellites of Jupiter he discovered fortnight ago, Astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson replied: "It seems sure that both the new satellites go around Jupiter in reverse, so my daughter, Jean, insists one of them must be named Corrigan. . . . We'll see how my astronomical associates take to Jean's idea...