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...Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father, is also up-stealing down the back stairs to beg a cup of coffee from Hertha, the German girl, before Ethel, who favors Postum and orange juice for the aged, can intervene...
...plane and its crew flew on to Chicago for the national air races (see p. 47). With them as interpreter went their homeland friend, Fraulein Hertha Seelemann-Mirow, a pilot of the aviation department of the Hamburg-American Line. The return to Germany will be by steamer...
...novels-Hertha, The President's Daughter, The Home, The Neighbors, Nina,-were never trim enough to make the passage between Today and Yesterday; lugubrious galleons, in that gulf they foundered. But time has preserved her letters in their own sharp salt; and the lapse of this half-century has bred in them a charm, a pathos they could never have had in the beginning-the charm of the ingenuous, the pathos of the unaware. Here was a little lady looking at a country sick with dysentery, fever in its veins and the drums of war tapping. She ob- served...
...victim of great Hertha's rage...