Word: hm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution, an institution of learning, a college!" He uttered the word "college" in a triumphal stage whisper, as if pleased to discover that the parietal rule did not deal with an Old Folks Home. Continuing, "This has to do with a regulation of the college . . . in connection with women. . . . Hm. But it will only work to disadvantage. They will abolish it. It is imperative...
...case in the birth room." Dr. DeLee reads the mother's hospital chart, looks up, announces, "Forceps may really be needed. . . . Gentlemen, this is a forceps case. Let us proceed to the amphitheatre." There a woman, asleep under ether, is ready for delivery. Dr. DeLee surveys her, murmurs, "Hm! Looks like a nine-pounder." Swiftly he nicks the woman's vulva so that it will spread and prevent the birth from tearing the perineum. Deftly he inserts the forceps, engages the baby's head, pulls with all his cleverness. The baby is born, apparently little disturbed...
...callers coughed and looked expectantly at the other as they sat down. "Uh-hm! Mr. Murray, I am Mr. Walden, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Vacuum, and this is our Vice President, Mr. Dundas...
...Hm department:--"Hunecker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud horses from Vassar and the fillies from Harvard...
...illustrated by the fact that as President of the CRIMSON he dared to say about the Maine Football game: "University team practically outplayed in discreditable game." The authors comment, "The astounded college awoke. Gossip carried the news of the revived CRIMSON throughout the student body and town. Well! . . HM! . . Well! Well! . . . So the dead have arisen! "His clubs were "like fabled grains of sand; but the Political Club, the Social Service society, and the Memorial society are carefully added to swell the list...