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Word: heman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minority and their ethics are beyond the realm of culture of people of Mr. Bartsch's type. He writes, "I know she is a vegetarian." How clever of him! I, too, have a mental picture of Mr. Bartsch; it is that of a big, husky heman, full of vim, vigor and "boloney," sitting down to his manly meal of camouflaged dead body (or perhaps he eats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Fearing Jr. '93. During the winter of 1907-1908 he spoke of it to several men among others the writer, and said that he wished it could be brought about that Haughton and Burr could meet. The writer arranged a dinner in Boston at which were present Heman M. Burr '77, father of "Hooks" Burr H. C. Leeds '77, Fearing. Haughton, Burr, Bartol Parker '08, captain of the 1907 team, the writer, and possibly one or two others Haughton and Burr met in this way, and the result is known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 YEAR SURVEY SHOWS CRIMSON ABOVE BLUE | 12/16/1927 | See Source »

...essence of the American film is the strong 'heman' who landed the goods, the self-made man who struggled to the top. We want more of that type. Let us have that sort of hero, rather than the dude who spends his time at the races or in dance halls, or the type of gentleman who never worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate it thoroughly. Striking as an experiment, his book never gets beyond its starting point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wall Street | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...married the child. Said he: "Those who know me in Plainfield-and they are plenty- were not stirred up by my marriage as outsiders were, because I believe the people in my own home town always respected me for what I have been-a regular, honest-to-goodness heman! I have never done a mean act in my whole life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ranchman's Daughter | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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