Word: callings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much as I sympathize with Mr. Craik Morris' letter in TIME [Oct. 10], I would like to call an important fact to his attention...
...meeting was apologetically called to order at 5:02 by Mr. Cole, who seems to be the ranking officer in the Coop hierarchy. Mr. Cole is a white-haired man whose kindly face was carefully mounted on a tab collar; throughout the convention he sat midway between two life-size marble statues, one of a Greek athlete and the other of a Greek solon, presumably representing the two sides to the Coop's retailing activities. His first official act was to call upon Mr. Humphreys for a rendition of the previous year's minutes...
...There were two prosecutors at the trail: the judge and the prosecuting attorney," he said. "It's an attempt to deny the existence of the working class and call the 450 million Chinese people conspirators," he said...
Anton Chekhov chose to call this play a comedy, and we must accept his word for that, even though the tragic fate of the two young lovers does not comply with the conventional comedy ending. Perhaps the comic element in "The Sea Gull" lies in the irony of the young writer's rejection by his mother, his sweetheart, and his public; all three of whom take to their hearts an older writer the young regards as a hack. "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to these who feel," is Herace Walpole's useful reminder...
...noticed too that Dutch sailors and American movies have introduced a new set of dance steps into Holland that is all the rage. They call it "yitter-bugging...