Word: hectoring
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...business proposition, needs lots of advertising. In 1917 the U. S. Government discovered this fact when it set about drafting an army of 4,000,000 men and borrowing 20 billion dollars. To construct a publicity machine for the next emergency, the War Department last week commissioned William Hector Rankin, 53-year-old Manhattan advertising man, as a lieutenant colonel in the reserve corps...
viciously dull as old Hector's," the reader...
This novel took four years to write, but tells of the happenings of only 24 hours. It starts with rich, spiteful old Hector Champion's dinner party in his Manhattan apartment, then follows each diner home: Spinster Savina Jerrold to her spinster-shared brownstone house, her spinster memories; Clubman Jim Towner to his night-club mistress; Tycoon Melbourn first to jilt his paramour, Jim Towner's wife, then to propose honorable marriage to cool, semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly...
...style is thin and without distinction but he tells a good story. Perhaps because of his poverty of style you never feel more emotionally concerned for any of his people than if you had met them in the flesh at a dinner party so viciously dull as old Hector...
...Hector James Hughes '94, professor of Civil Engineering and dean of the Harvard Engineering School since 1920, died last Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in his home at 6 Clement Circle, Cambridge. Professor Hughes was suddenly taken seriously ill on February 23, following his return from the South. He had been suffering for some time from heart disease brought on by overwork, and had planned spending a sabbatical leave of absence for the second half of this academic year in England and Scotland...