Word: hillmanism
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...whirlwinds lift the dust on roads, rain is coming. A sunny shower means that "the Devil is a-whuppin' his wife." A mild Christmas means a heavy harvest, but "a green Christmas makes a fat graveyard." When a cat sits down with its tail toward the fire, the hillman looks for a cold spell...
...Starving. The 124 patients at the Birmingham (Ala.) Hillman Hospital were badly undernourished. They suffered from scurvy, pellagra, other starvation diseases. According to orthodox theory, their deficient diet should have ruined their teeth. But investigators found, to their surprise, that the 124 patients had only one-third as many cavities and missing teeth as well-fed people usually have...
...American Midwest requires not only the expert services of reporters in Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Des Moines, etc., but also demands plenty of travel from Chicago's five-man staff. Indicative of this kind of personal coverage are these anecdotes from Chicago reporters James Bell, Serrell Hillman and Eleanor Steinert...
When mystery story writer Craig Rice was covering the Heirens murder story for a Chicago paper, Hillman called to get some dope on her assignment, was invited to go along on "a terrific clue that may break the case." It turned out to be some strange pencil scribblings on a package that one of Rice's readers had received from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It was, of course...
...queer day for the tidy, twisty mining town of Bentleyville, Pa. (pop. 4,000). Over the deserted tipple of the nearby Hillman Coal & Coke Co. the Stars & Stripes dropped wanly. Bentleyville's miners, already in their second day of idleness (they had walked out early), were underfoot everywhere, painting and patching their boxlike houses on the still-green hills, playing catch in the streets, window-shopping, lounging in front of the Methodist Church. On sunny Main Street, Bentleyville's housewives hustled through their marketing with a troubled air. Unless Mr. Lewis won or called off the strike...