Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green Pills. Last week the De Pree Co. of Holland, Mich, offered a chlorophyll preparation over the counter, without prescription, under the trade name of "Nullo." Each bottle ($1.25) contained 30 Paddy-green tablets (a month's supply). Nullo, the label emphasized, "does not stop perspiration." But, claimed the makers, it "is effective in the control of . . . perspiration odors of the underarms and feet; odors associated with menstruation ; and odors that may be the result of faulty metabolism. Nullo, allowed to dissolve on the tongue, quickly neutralizes localized mouth odors...
...appropriate automobiles for third-class clerks in a department. But when it comes to doing something for the people of the United States, we are told that we must . . . not waste the people's money." After some hours of this, Florida's Spessard Holland suggested that the Senate vote down the building "quietly and quickly" and then "go on to more vital business of the nation." The Senate...
...creating music. Composer van Milligen's Brinie barely survived its first performance. A few other Dutch composers put some operatic notes on paper, but without much more success. Last week, for almost the first time in half a century, the Dutch, and their visitors at the fourth annual Holland Festival, were seeing, hearing and enjoying an opera composed by a Hollander...
...looked up and saw a small hole in the dike through which a tiny stream was flowing. Any child in Holland will shudder at the thought of a leak in the dike! . . . That little hole, if the water were allowed to trickle through, would soon be a large one, and a terrible inundation would be the result. Quick as a flash he saw his duty . . . His chubby little finger was thrust in almost before he knew it. The flowing was stopped! "Ah!" he thought, with a chuckle of boyish delight, "the angry waters must stay back now! Haarlem shall...
...straighten out the poetic quirks and biographical kinks in the Dickinson legend. After years of persuasion, Harvard had finally convinced Alfred Leete Hampson, longtime friend of Emily's niece, and heir to Emily's letters and manuscripts, that he should part with them. Manhattan Bibliophile Gilbert Holland Montague had put up "a very substantial sum," turned the collection over to Harvard's Houghton Library for a special Emily Dickinson room...