Word: hiram
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...fully formed character. And when he delivers the prologue before the Pyramus playet, he has a grand time with the alliterative avalanche of b's. The other cronies are passable. The whole sextet of artisans is just no match for their counterparts in the 1958 production: Morris Carnovsky, Hiram Sherman, Ellis Rabb, William Hickey, Will Geer, and Severn Darden...
...Hiram Bingham, Connecticut Republican, for arranging a Senate staff post in 1929 for a lobbyist, who remained on the payroll of the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut while attending closed sessions of the Finance Committee...
...Choice. What he has been is remarkable in political history. Both of his Negro predecessors in the Senate went to Washington as symbols of Yankee vindictiveness against the South during the Reconstruction era?and both were puppet politicians. The first, an itinerant preacher named Hiram Rhodes Revels, was picked in 1870 by the Mississippi legislature, then dominated by carpetbaggers and Negroes, to fill the Senate seat once occupied by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The other was Blanche Kelso Bruce, an imposing mulatto, who was sent to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi...
...possibility of a Romney-Chafee combination?might throw him their convention votes. Vermont's Senator George Aiken states flatly: "I've held that Romney is the most promising man we have. He could win." Among other Republican Senators, New Jersey's Case, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Hawaii's Hiram Fong and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith also are said to favor...
...long boasted that it used up everything but the squeal. Together with the utilization of other wastes-such as corncobs and tobacco shreddings to produce face powder and insecticides-the agriculture-waste industry is a $5.9 billion business. The squeezings from soybean oil are used for oral contraceptives. Hiram Walker says, only half in jest, that it recovers "the hangover from whisky" -fusel oil, usually blamed for hangovers, can now be largely removed from whisky and sold to paint and perfume makers. Poultry processors, confronted with smothering stockpiles of chicken feathers that would not burn, came up with...