Word: callings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tuss McLaughry, Dartmouth coach: "I'll call it even now--the team that makes the fewest mistakes will...
...built it into one of Michigan's biggest dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined SEC). Still a salesman, McDonald's first step as SEC boss last week was to call in his division chiefs and tell them to "make this agency one of the best in town to do business with...
...deadline arrived, but Judy did not. Three times the studio telephoned her home. On the fourth call came the admission that Judy would not be present: she had dropped only seven pounds...
...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...
...beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene Granillo. Police held Bartender Gray on a homicide charge...