Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Edward Farrell has issued a call for inexperienced men for the Freshman track team. Any aspirant now will get individual attention from Coach Farrell and Jaako Mikkola. So far the squad has been weak in weight men and hurdlers, and Freshmen interested in either of these fields are specially urged to report now so that they can get a good start before the season officially opens...
...show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting to notice their reactions. Here, in Boston, now, in contrast to Detroit, the audiences seem to understand the show, and though it doesn't call for a brilliant mind to follow out show, we presuppose a certain amount of sophistication, intelligence, and education on the part of the people who come to see and hear our revue...
Soon Senators began to straggle in-some in evening clothes, some with their morning ties askew, some unshaven, many vexed. Senator Hawes of Missouri said that his taxicab had caught on fire, that he had to call a fire engine. Senator Willis of Ohio said that he saw the flag floating over the Senate wing of the Capitol (denoting that the Senate is in session) and so he hurried from the Union Station. Vexed, Senator Reed of Missouri rushed down the aisle, shouted: "This is an inexcusable outrage...
...butchery had indeed caused about half the 110,000 strikers to return to work, but in London the Laborite Daily Herald pertinently exclaimed: "Had the Nationalists [Cantonese] done this, what a cry of horror and indignation would have been raised in this country, what a call for strong action! But this 'white terror's' victims are only trades unionists, so the author is 'the defender of Shanghai' to British Tories...
...Orleans, the one city in the U. S. with a sensuous background, puts on the show year after year. As the last whoops of one carnival die out in the warm spring breezes off the Gulf, diligent managers are promoting the program for the ensuing year. They call in artists, discuss costumes and motifs; they plan and plot, calculate. The show must go on! It is a mint. Then there is the tradition which must not be overlooked...