Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled down to the life of a small-town editor that he had known from his 18th year. Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short, slim, dark man whom Democrats call the "fighting pacifist" is too good a speaker to withdraw from the public rostrum, but his efforts were concentrated on earning fat legal fees from Cleveland industrialists. Thomas Watt Gregory, Attorney General (1914-19), prosecutor of trusts, had resigned two years before the end came. He returned to Texas; legal...
...years he took advantage of his new position to live a life of drinking, gaming and debauch. Suddenly he abandoned these practices, and when his friends assembled to remonstrate, he cried: "I have given up this kind of life to give my real services to my country. You call yourselves my friends. Friends! Bah! Thank the gods, I shall not have to call you friends any more. You, who are supposed to be working for the country and serving the people, are not MY friends. Get out! Don't come here again...
...fiction articles for April were by newspaper men and women. Few months go by without Editor Mencken's discovering some fresh way to reprove the profession in which he got his start and training and of which he has been what he likes to call a "practitioner" for nearly 30 years...
...higher point of development than any Coach Mitchell has had in recent years. The outdoor sessions, made possible at an earlier date than usual and the present excellence of the Soldiers Field turf, will undoubtedly prove a valuable asset later in the season, when the 36 game schedule will call for unusually good condition on the part of the players...
Steps right up and call him brother...