Word: hellos
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Each morning, as White House Messenger Robert M. Goodloe lifted the curtain from Flash's silvery, over-sized cage, the bird would greet him with a dulcet, patronizing "Hello, boy." As girl workers arrived, beady-eyed Flash greeted them with wolf calls. When crossed, which was seldom, Flash cussed the air blue. He was fond of raisins, and newsmen slipped him plenty, though some said he preferred bourbon...
...gates to the mill, Taft was confronted by a line of angry men, greeted by a din of jeers and catcalls. Disregarding the advice of city detectives, he ordered his car slowed down. He leaned out his car window, grinned and said: "Hello there, fellows." Most of the strikers, he reported afterward, "smiled back at me when I waved and seemed glad to meet a notorious person." Inside the mill, Taft got a friendly reception from other workers, some of whom turned away from their furnaces and rollers to shake his hand...
...doesn't say hello to you; he just looks up from his desk, nails you with a stare and listens," one SACman says. "You begin talking and you don't hear a reply-all you hear is your own voice. Then, when you are in mid-sentence he takes the pipe out of his mouth and says, 'Get to the point.' A minute or two later: 'You're straying from the point. Don't waste my time. Come back when you've got this thing in hand...
Luscious Patricia Morison, who was on her uppers in filmdom before she romped and trilled through the Broadway smash Kiss Me, Kate, noted a change in the California climate: "A week or so ago when I sang at the Hollywood Bowl . . . people who used to nod and say 'Hello, Pat' . . . came dashing backstage and threw their arms around me, shouting 'Dahling, you were wonderful...
...When I see you on the street," President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked his Columbia University students, "will you please say 'hello'-because some people who don't belong to the university occasionally pass me on 116th Street and they think I'm crazy when I say hello...