Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...care to help any magazine whose managers or editors put themselves down on an equality with Negroes and call them "Mr." and "Mrs." Do not send mine any longer than it is paid...
Sirs : . . . One little suggestion for a better TIME?Don't be so contemptuous of your contemporaries. "Gum-Chewers' Sheetlet," "Pinko Political Weekly," etc. I know nothing about the Gum-Chewers' papers but the New Republic which you call Pinko, I value even above TIME on my magazine list. As for Physical Culture, which you so lately maligned, it has done and is doing much good in the world and deserves better treatment than you have given...
...Cabinet of "Sacred Union" which made such legislative speed possible is no ordinary group of 13 ministers. Aside from their major attainments as statesmen, the Premier and eight of his ministers have published books of which France has no call to feel ashamed. Premier Poincaré and Minister of Justice Barthou have made history and then clapped it in scholarly fashion between covers. Foreign Minister Briand has to his credit an authoritative volume on the separation of Church and State. Books of travel, natural history and biography flow incessantly from the pen of Minister of Education Herriot, whose Madame Recamier...
Next day the Conservatives freed President Grinius, and forced him to call Professor Augustine Valdemaras (Conservative) to the Premiership. Antona Smetona, for some 20 years a tireless exponent of Lithuanian nationalism, thus halted by force last week the growing rapprochement with Soviet Russia which was the policy of the ousted Socialist Cabinet. Then, to make his coup "constitutional" he forced President Grinius to resign, and finally compelled the Seimas (Parliament) to assemble and elect him (Smetona) President...
...startling to behold the always opinionated but seldom unsophisticated New York World pitching into "Lampy" (as Harvards call their campus fool) like a Dutch uncle or beard-tweaked rabbi, belaboring the unimportantly obvious. "Now it becomes," said the World, "a painful duty...