Word: heman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Clark Gable, 38, all-round cinema heman; by his second wife, Maria ("Rhea") Langham Gable, 48, Texas oil heiress; in Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: desertion. Said Cinemactress Carole Lombard, whose friendship with Gable was publicized in a fan-magazine article on "Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives" (TIME, Dec. 19): "When he gets a few days off and I am not busy perhaps we will sneak away and have the ceremony performed...
...very happy now. He would like to live there among the model trains. Of course, someday, when he graduates, Vag would like to be an engineer. Not the clever kind they turn out by the thousands at Tech, but one of the real heman kind of engineers on locomotives of trains throughout the world, who know daily the indescribable thrill of easing the throttle open, gradually nursing the Johnson bar into the center notch, and letting the mighty monster rock over the high iron. Until that lucky day, Vag is going to try to get work as an extra yardman...
Harvard first paused to celebrate its past under fussy old President Josiah Quincy in 1836. The Bicentenary graduating class had 39 members, less than contemporary Dartmouth, Princeton, Union, or Yale. A handful of New England college presidents were invited to be the learned guests of honor. All but President Heman Humphrey of Amherst declined the opportunity to listen to President Quincy's two-hour historical oration. Josiah Quincy was bitterly disappointed that his Bicentennial was less an academic festival than a convivial reunion of Harvardmen. In one form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going...
...down on Cape Cod, are proud to have TIME notice our Chatham mural, by Mrs. Wight, but we do wish you might have done a little better by our names. Dr. Worthing is distorted to Northing; and the inimitable Heman Harding, of whom Cape Cod is passionately proud, has to be recognized as Herman. The pictures of Mrs. Harding and Miss Virginia are fine...
...softly whispered that he was effeminate. Democrat Green's retort took the form of a full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public speaker, heman. Three of the pictures showed muscular Democrat Green stripped to the waist-chopping a tree, wrestling and, over the caption "Builder," heroically lugging stones...