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Word: calls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moonfaced" am I? Because of that three minutes I did in Tobacco Road as a result of my run-in with John Barton, I've been resigned to being called "Jeeter" the rest of my days, but now you have to come along and call me "moonfaced" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...fore. Without a peer as a gridiron opportunist this fleet Indian back was a scoring threat every second he was playing against all opposition this fall. John McLaughry of Brown, as brutal a bucker as Ivy League football has over seen had an off-year but still gets the call over Rainwater, Chismadia, or Seymour

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, Donald Peddle, and Sheffield West, S | Title: Cornell Places Four Men on Crimson 1939 All-Ivy Eleven | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Right after his departure, his band held a meeting, formed a cooperative, elected vocalist Tony Pastor president, and decided to call themselves "Tony Pastor with Art Shaw's orchestra...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...view of the report that the so-called 'Christian Front' is strenuously endeavoring to increase its forces by inviting Protestants into its membership, we are compelled to warn Protestant people against accepting such invitations and overtures. ... No organization or group of individuals fostering such evil propaganda which has resulted in numerous acts of violence in our city has the moral right to call itself Christian. . . . Any group using the name of Christ for any purpose foreign to His character is either ignorant of Christian fundamentals or else they are guilty of practicing inexcusable hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Affronters | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...gaunt chateau in France, the back-wash of the French theatre take refuge as the years creep up on them, creasing their faces and withering their voices. There they sit, listening to the echoes of long-dead applause, hoping "their public" will call them back to the boards. Not very attractive material, but the French don't seem to worry about the superficial aesthetics of their pictures. They just brush up some sure-fire actors, plaster them with depressing make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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