Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S "Manhattan," "famed," "one," and similar expressions have long annoyed me. Why inform us that the daughter of "famed" brewery-owner John Smith has married "one" Jim Jones, or words to that effect? Why not just call the young man "Jim Jones" and let it go at that? More than likely he belongs to the same social strata of society as the lady he marries. Such terms sound snobbish and affected to unassuming American ears. And they do not sound like the best of English either...
...expected a caller -expected in vain. Governor John Hammill of Iowa was late for an appointment with him,. Moments passed, the Governor's tardiness emphasized itself. Finally came, not the Governor, but word from him. He had not reached Washington in time to keep his appointment. He would call the next...
...evenings, though, were brighter than his days. At about 10 p. m. his wife, Marcelle, would call, with his brother, Norman, and his sister-in-law. (Visiting hours were theoretically from 7 to 8, but not for the Carrolls.) The visitors left usually about midnight, and then Room 19 would be,, quiet until, in the morning, three sharp buzzes told the nurse that the patient was awake. But he took little interest in anything except the Manhattan newspapers, which usually came out from his room with theatrical and social items clipped from them...
Queen Emma and "Empress" Hermine communed in mutual audience for something over an hour. The call was of significance because it served to focus the world's eye momentarily once again upon Queen Emma, the resolute onetime Princess of Waldeck.Pyrmont who, at 21, by a single bold stroke, secured for herself elevation to the dignity of Queen of the Netherlands beside 62-year-old King William III, justly known as the "Dutch Don Juan...
...your squadron should call yourselves pirates of Wall Street, because against all morality and justice, you trample on the honor of a weak people, solely obeying Kellogg's orders in behalf of a group of Jewish bankers located in New York, where the Statue of Liberty stands...