Mail Call Origin
"Mail Call" was drawn from the military practice of the same name where soldiers assembled to receive mail from a designated person, who would call each soldier's name in turn to pick up their mail.
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Famous quotes containing the words mail, call and/or origin:
“The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“They call, even if I’m pinned behind bars.
They call, they call their green death call.
They want me. They need me.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Each structure and institution here was so primitive that you could at once refer it to its source; but our buildings commonly suggest neither their origin nor their purpose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)