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Word: calls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, entre nous, you are forced to be servile to public opinion, and cannot call your mind your own-when you are in your office. Your refusal of Haldeman-Julius's advertising must have made you keep away from mirrors for a while. I have been surprised at the class of periodicals he has entered with his advertising, and believe you would be safe in taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...wish to call your attention to a paragraph in TIME, May 16, in which it is stated that "Cody" Allen is a granddaughter of the late Col. Cody. This is an error as Miss Helen Allen is a daughter of a niece of Col. Cody's making her a grandniece. Buffalo Bill's granddaughter is Jane Cody Garlow, the daughter of Irma Cody Garlow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...subscribers to the CRIMSON except those who live in dormitories in the Yard, are asked to call at the Crimson office from now until the end of the year to secure their copies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Should Call at Office for Crimsons | 6/17/1927 | See Source »

Contrast this with American police methods. M. Daudet would most certainly have been sworn at; he might very readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GALLIC GENDARME | 6/14/1927 | See Source »

...porters whom travelers may call "George" without affront, Mr. Warner was educated at public school in New Orleans. His seven stripes indicate 35 years, going on 40, with the New York Central. His residences are on St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. C., and Calumet Ave., Chicago. His chief club, The Turf Club (Chicago). His sons, Devere Joseph and George Joseph Jr., are in civil service and sportdom, respectively. George Joseph Jr. achieved some fame as a pugilist (nom de combat, "Jose Alvarez, the Mexican Kid") and fought "Kid" MacPartland to a bloody draw in his last ring appearance, in Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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