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Word: calls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will name the man I think is to blame. His name is Andrew W. Mellon. . . . I want to call the President's attention to the fact he has a responsibility over the head of Mr. Mellon and it is therefore up to him to remove Mr. Mellon and . . . to get a Smedley Butlerf or somebody like him who means to enforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...will assume that whatever 'small deed of arms' as the knights of old used to call it, stands to the credit of each one of you, you committed-perpetrated-it from the motives of self preservation or because you happened to notice that someone on the staff was watching and admiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Enviable Order | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...There are those of us here on whom the Sovereign has conferred the most honorable Order of the Bath, the most exalted Order of the Star of India or the most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Tonight I speak of-if I may call it so-the most enviable Order of the Victoria Cross, the most democratic and at the same time the most exclusive of all orders of chivalry. . . . † It is recruited from that very limited circle of men who see what is needed to be done, and do it at once at their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Enviable Order | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Douglas was back in action again. He played at left end, but Harding, who has held down this wing post all week, was not on the field, owing to a late class. Which one of these will start tomorrow is undecided, but it seems that Harding may get the call. Captain Barrett was given another much-needed day of rest, Davis filling in at left tackle. There were no lineup changes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEED AND TIMING STRESSED BY TEAM | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...that great tradition of not beautiful, but nice, so admirably supported by well meaning aunts, while man is merely conceited or ugly. Men have, after all, been fairly patient in bearing with feminine supremacy, and it does seem to be a little too much of a gloating attitude to call this development equality. At all events, it is to be hoped that these young ladies have appreciated the full significance of that term, duty dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIG AND THE DATE | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

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