Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strike Call...
Ashby said he would call in an investigating board if faculty petitions were withdrawn and if the Action Committee members were placed on probation. But the Action Committee felt that Ashby's investigating board wouldn't really be an investigating board, and so the demonstrations went...
...first day at the typewriter, after working for an hour, he got the old terrifying constriction in his chest and the pain in his left arm. He called to his wife Eva, who brought him a glass of brandy and promised to call the doctor. After a second drink she handed him a mirror, showed him that his lips were not blue, as they had been in his original attack. Then Mrs. Harrison, a schoolteacher who has learned practical psychology by handling 4-B children, confessed that she had only pretended to call the doctor. Harrison now recognizes...
...characters in Philip Wylie's new novel include: the amiable madam of a New York call-house, two warm-hearted call-house girls, a nuclear physicist whose atomic know-how is equaled only by his abysmal no-know-how where dames are concerned, a woman who has run away from her botanist husband because she caught him kissing another man in the conservatory, and a Wylie version of Jesus Christ, his name abbreviated to Chris, who shows up in a persistent but inconclusive dream about a B-29 on an A-bomb run. Most of the action takes place...
White Monday. But by Monday, all is well. Yvonne has had an affair with a floozy named Gwen and has thereby lost her anti-botanical prejudices. Marcia has gone back to the call-house where she belongs. Paul is in a hospital, sadder and wiser. And Character Wylie's cancer turns out to be just a "rare lymphatic growth...