Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Cadet Glasgow told a persistent World reporter: "I can't remember what the Princess talked about in particular. . . . It was what you would call 'light talk'. . . . Yes, I have an autographed photograph of the Princess, which I keep well hidden. ... I am going to Paris next summer, but not to Bucharest. . . . Royal Princesses always make marriages of state, you know...
Notable Exceptions. Outside these "big business" combines whose sole preoccupations are profit and power there exists a mere pair of newspapers whose editors can call their souls their own. The onetime (1921-26) Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Reading, has recently sought to enlarge this number by his purchase of the Daily Chronicle (Liberal) from Lloyd George control; but the "old guard" actually consists of only the Manchester Guardian (Liberal) and the London Times (Independent). For 50 years Mr. Charles P. Scott, owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, has upheld the highest and most disinterested ideals of journalism...
...starting goal guard has not been picked yet, the decision lying between W. W. Adams '28 and Joseph Morrill '28. Both of these men did relief work for Captain Thayer Cummings '26, last year showing marked ability as cage protectors. It is possible that Morrill will get the initial call, with Adams ready to relieve him at any time...
...have seen the play remember how Captain Flag and Sergeant Quirt are continually clutching at one another's throat hot-tempered rivals for any wench that happens on their common path, remember also how these fighting men unhesitatingly leave off the bitter wrangling when the bugle sounds the call to their "religion of soldiering." The love of the marines is nothing to make a prop lady sigh...
...over it a formal and elegant carnality which the modern mind likes to encounter. Perhaps carnality is the wrong word; perhaps you cannot apply it, for instance, to Lawrence's picture of Miss Mary Moulton Barrett for which Sir Joseph Duveen gave 74,000 guineas; perhaps you cannot call this pure and lovely miss, standing with round arms pressed to round bosoms, a storm behind her head, animation in her eyes, gauze around her legs, anything but "Pinkie...