Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singing every Sunday; in fact, almost leads the congregation with her strong, clear soprano. She seemed to enjoy it." ¶The ladies of the Rapid City Fortnightly Club were in a state. "Who speaks first?" sputtered one fluttering matron. "You don't think we ought to call her -your Grace' do you?" "Nonsense, my dear, she'd think you were using her first name." "I must ask her what she thought of Lindy!" Into the midst of the furor walked Mrs. Coolidge. One lady, Mrs. M. W. Pangburn, immediately fainted, because, as she explained later, "the prospect...
...development in which Anglo-Saxon energy with untiring activity has translated into actual fact the boldest conceptions of human thought ..." Mayor replied, "Prince, if you said what I think you said, I'm grateful." Also the Mayor remarked (as he had done at Venice the week previous) : "They call me the late mayor of New York but you don't notice me showing up late in Europe. If the boys back home could see this array of glasses, maybe they would understand...
...heart of practically every Western voter. But no one candidate has yet appeared to champion all four-except Mayor Thompson. From this circumstance some saw in his crusade a flourish preliminary to tossing the Thomp- son hat into the presidential ring. Despite President Coolidge's adamant refusal to call a special session of Congress to deal with the flood emergency and his veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill (farm relief). Mayor Thompson hailed him as one of the greatest friends of the Mississippi Valley in the White House. Of onetime Governor Lowden he said: "There...
...Empress Nagako of Japan was born a sister to her first child, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya. Once again the Imperial Stork had failed to heed the gods of Shintoism and the great call of the great Lord Buddha for a son and heir to the august Imperial throne...
...only, generous Mr. Delia Vecchia replied: "Catholics and Protestants, alike. And I will continue this service as long as I can afford it, because I believe in helping along the churches all I can." Last Sunday was the first Sunday of the new month. Mr. Delia Vecchia received no call for free church rides. Said he: "I don't understand the people of Red Bank. They are either too lazy to get up and go to church, even with free taxi service, or think that there is something crooked or strange because they are getting something for nothing...