Word: hessians
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...appropriations, swept clean, ousted Conductor Henry Hadley, called Alfred Hertz from New York. Then 43, there were as many gold stars on his record as there were hairs in his beard, stars that went all the way back to his earliest days in Frankfort, when, a square little Hessian boy in skirts, he pulled himself up onto the music piano stool and walked his fingers up and down the keyboard until the neighbors poked their heads out the windows and shook threatening fists. He was a baby then, just a pianist. At six he was composing...
Even in 1776 they must have been indifferent, or perhaps they were at prayers, or crewding into afternoon tea at President and Mrs. Langdon's, or even throwing eggs at the Hessian military police in the hopes of starting a massacre. At any rate the artist of the University Theatre did not see any students near the elm. The picture of Mr. Washington was the best thing of the evening's boredom...
...boat, rowed by his ragged orderlies among vast cakes of ice. Last week, as part of a sesquicentennial celebration, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, swimmer, mother, swam across at the same place, on the same day of the year, in 10½ minutes. Mrs. Schoemmell is said to be of Hessian descent...
...know that this Hessian is not a Catholic and that the Pope would refuse to let you marry him, even should I give my consent...
...LORING MYSTERY -Jeffrey Farnol-Little, Brown ($2.00). Out of his early Georgian property room, Mr. Farnol brings another grand collection of Hessian boots, shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks. These he disposes as skilfully as of yore. The plot lurks excitingly -how young David Loring came from Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over...