Word: calling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...used to call his girl "Revenge...
...first thirteen of the X. Y. Z. that Doggy honors with his friendship, if that name can be applied to so cold-blooded an intimacy. But Toady does n't care for any one outside of the first thirteen, though we can hardly call his attendance on them friendship, as they don't pay the slightest regard...
...call me formal "Mr." then...
...little save praise. The changes he has introduced, though sometimes at first disliked, have always proved advantageous, and have shown that he regards the success of the Library as identical with its utility to the students. Still, there are other changes apparently desirable to which we would like to call attention. It seems some-what remarkable that a library which expends $15,000 annually in purchasing books should, nevertheless, oblige students to raise by subscription the $300 needed to support a reading-room, and should in no way encourage their voluntary efforts. The sum, it is true, is not large...
...Yale Courant does well to call its full-page picture College Riff-Raff. For surely, the two collegiates represented are riff-raff, the man who was so familiar with such specimens as to be able to portray them must be riff-raff, and the editor who accepted the cartoon, riff-raff also...