Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Catry, no fool, suspected trickery. After hanging up he waited a few moments, then called the Ministry of Interior. Meanwhile several dozen other Royalists had called all the Ministry's telephones except that in the booth. Therefore the call of Director Catry was switched to the only available phone, that at which stood the mimicker, who, for a second time, ordered M. Daudet's release, rebuked M. Catry...
...Continue to call a "busy" number indefinitely until the call is completed...
...Huron, almost the entire population of 10,000 surged down to the railroad station. "South Dakota is the sunshine state, all the people here are feeling great," they chanted. A schoolgirl drum-corps accompanied the song, prompted Mrs. Coolidge to call out: "This is better than being in schoof, isn't it?" Then the crowd sang another song, a parody of the famed Gallagher-Shean melody, ending with the refrain: "Absolutely President Coolidge, South Dakota welcomes you." Pleased, the President asked for a copy of this song, received a fistful as he extended his arm from the observation...
...newspapers have certainly brought the art of ballyhoo to new heights of volume and penetration. Through it all, the hero of the occasion has been, appropriately, the most heroic aspect of it. Never has his tongue or his balance slipped, always has he been what kindly old ladies might call "a real nice boy." Anyone might have said, as Colonel Lindbergh said at the performance of Rio Rita: "I won't keep you long; you'd rather see the show than listen to me." But few would have fulfilled that promise and sat down after a speech...
...dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists say now I give money to some White Guard people who are against Soviet. That isn't true. The story, it was simple-money I give to poor children in Vienna...