Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first ballot was so widely scattered that no demonstrations took place, but votes that shifted to Smith and Baker on the second roll call brought forth cheering, and parades of delegates, carrying their standards. On the second ballot the Pennsylvania vote for W. B. Wilson of that state was contested, and the delegation was polled by the permanent chairman, and found to be for Smith by a two-vote margain. All the states voted under the unit rule...
Boston Deep trousers pockets are more dangerous than French heels or corsets, said Qr. J. F. Goldthwaite yesterday. "Men stick their hands way down in the poojkets, throwing the body into the position we may call the 'Harvard stoop, as it is so prevalent there," he said...
...attend Queen Thuraya. Their conversation was presumably "advanced," for Mme. Kollontai is an avowed, die-hard exponent of free love, while Her Majesty, a tireless educator, is easily the most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately call the "Little Father," as they once did the Tsar. The Queen and the Ministress know that Comrade Kalinin is but a willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled...
Having sworn, the caucus approved a resolution calling upon the regency-which reigns for six-year-old King Mihai-to dismiss Aristocrat Vintila Bratiano and call to the Prime Ministry onetime Peasant Juliu Maniu...
...conclusion of the game the scorer of the CRIMSON side found that his scorebook showed the Princetonians leading five to four. On comparison with the rival scorer who had the CRIMSON leading five to four a committee of impartial judges consisting of the two teams decided to call the game a tie. Immediately the CRIMSON team carried the gallant Princetonian moundsman off the field while the ambidextrous and reversible battery of the CRIMSON collected by the remaining Princetonians tore up the sidelines still confident in their ability to keep their heads...