Word: hallett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the upperclassmen who joined the Yearlings yesterday were four players besides Torby who saw action in the 7 to 0 victory over Yale last November. Joe Gardella, backfield handyman, tackle Mose Hallett, guard Don Lowry, and newly converted center Bill Coleman formed the veteran quartet donning moleskins for the first time this spring...
Beside the consul and his consort, soon there were living at the comfortable Hughes-Hallett establishment in Detroit's Indian Village, three white rats named Mehitabel, Ermyntrude and Sonia; a special brown-and-black-spotted rat called
...Sultan; a guinea pig named Winnie-the-Pooh; two garter snakes, Becky Sharp and Thackeray; two four-and five-foot pilot black snakes, Pythagoras and Snookie; an adolescent alligator, John Lewis; Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's mother and two bubbling, healthy children, Son David (now at Cambridge) and Daughter Kathleen (an Olympic-team fencer...
...Hughes-Hallett also collects Chinese prints and Bessarabian rugs, is an accomplished pianist and mezzo-soprano, has sung under the name of Mme Vimara, has composed an opera called Chimera and a march named Dynamic Detroit, and has a book of poems entitled White Magic to her credit. Detroit is more likely to remember her, however, for her frequent appearances around town with a pet bull snake ("A perfect lamb," she called him) coiled around her neck, and for her always interesting parties...
Most unusual of Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's fiestas was one for Dr. Emil Rothman on his return from Cleveland after a serious abdominal operation. Suddenly a long-faced butler wheeled a hospital operating table into the centre of the drawing room, with careful solemnity folded the sheets back, revealing a dummy with a pink tissue-paper stomach. The "stomach" was split open and out came spaghetti and link sausages...