Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination but played the game square. Please call the attention of the Senate to this and when it has some lucrative appointive position to fill, it may have another name on its list as available and worthy...
Hillyer H. Straton (son of loud-speaking Roach Straton), who heard "the trumpet call of God's messengers," was ordained a Baptist minister...
...area of the Louisiana gas field. And the "wet" gas furnishes carload after carload of gasoline before it is used in the burning houses. To me it is an interesting industry. I was rather offended when you dismissed it with a snicker-"shoe-polish." You might almost as well call the packing industry the "pigsfeet people"-the farmers of the world "manure spreaders." This is a carping letter, although I did not intend it so. Pride injured by an error of omission prompted it. Perhaps sometime in the near future you will have an opportunity to discuss Southern progress...
...Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), First Baron Birkenhead (1919), First Earl of Birkenhead (1922), has met success as often as any man in England (TIME, May 3). There are those who, reflecting on his delight in a cold bottle and a warm companion, would scarcely call his wooing of success quite "gentlemanly." But the present Secretary of State for India, brilliant, resourceful, has at least no false pride...
...FOOL-F. Tennyson Jesse- Knopf ($2.50). Any lad that likes to lie at a railroad curve for the sensation of being obliterated, almost, by a rushing express train, is likely to come to no common end.* That is Tom Fould, or Tom Fool as they call him in the years that he courts high moments of danger sailing the world's seas. His first woman, and one or two afterwards, taken not lightly, give him flashes of the same gathered intensity that comes in moments of imminent destruction. For a time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment...