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...been for that great personality, I would have been scared to death! He sat up behind his big desk and put every person instantly at ease. He answered questions good-naturedly and quickly-I wonder if there's a question in the world that would make him 'hem and haw.' . . He had on a dark blue suit with a very faint stripe, a white shirt and a dark blue tie with a small oval figure...
...people who balk most strenuously at Director Falk's opera-in-Enghsh policy are neither the public nor the Pier management, but the singers themselves. U.S. singers who had learned their roles in French or Italian objected to relearning hem in English, claimed that the transated words did not roll off the tongue so trippingly as the original...
...Author. Ernest Miller* Hemingway ("Hem" to his friends) has seen much of the war and violence he so aptly describes. Born July 21, 1898, at Oak Park, Ill., second of a family of six, he was only two when his father, a doctor who was also a sports enthusiast, handed him a fishing rod, was not yet in his teens when he graduated to shotgun and rifle. On long hunting trips in northern Michigan he was his father's regular companion. In other respects, he was not so filial. His father had hopes of his becoming a doctor...
...there is one of those nebulous personalities known as a "Local Girl", as even "Local Man" involved in some slight way with the case, so much the better. Pictures of hem, with sad, proud smiles, hurrying down their stairs, into autos, on trains, etc., are rushed through engraving plants onto your breakfast table. Soon negro house boy suspects, stern but kindly judges, and lawyers will parade by. It's almost a relief to turn back a few more pages until we come to a placid, bovine girl, but one whom we know is good to her parents, labelled "Hard Working...
...could flood itself in self-defense. The National Guard and other relief agencies began sending 25,000 inhabitants to Chillicothe and Columbus. "The Bottoms'' of Cincinnati is the wholesale and tenement district from which the rest of the town, perched like Rome on seven hills, lifts the hem of its municipal garment. Last week, after an unprecedented rainfall of ten in. in ten days, as the river stage went to 71, then 73, then 78 ft., The Bottoms was under from one to 20 ft. of water. Schools in the rest of town were closed...