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...music was credited to one Jim Hoyl, whose identity was a mystery, though under his real name, Jim Hoyl had been an occasional visitor to the nether world of Tin Pan Alley...
...flood tide of Europe's social unrest was lapping over into The Nether lands. But Queen Wilhelmina had her finger in the dike. Her new Government for a country radically changed as a result of war and German occupation was not yet completed. But into it she had invited two leaders of the new political forces -Willem Schermerhorn, former Resistance leader, who had had time to dream up new ideas for The Netherlands while he was a Nazi prisoner, and Willem Drees, Social Democrat and trade union leader...
...anybody else. Washington's colony of little-nation diplomats fell into the nether pits of gloom. Parisians heard that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, selected last week to head France's delegation to San Francisco, first learned of the deal from his morning newspaper. Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, in the U.S. on his way to London for a preliminary Empire conference, was astounded and enraged. All the dominions knew that Russia had asked for three votes, but not that the U.S. had consented or decided to demand three for itself. British officialdom seemed...
...alarming in their slightest gesture. "They are here with the reeves," said Delia, his colored maid. "The lawn is full of fletchers," she announced on another occasion. Barney Haller, the Thurber handy man, had "thunder following him like a dog." His language, like Delia's, was from the nether world. "Dis morning bime by I go hunt grotches in de voods...
...great aunt. Her background is New England, her foreground bosomy. Her lower lip is lush. On her purple, leg-of-mutton-sleeved blouse she sports a gold lapel watch which Bergen bought for her for $35 in a Manhattan curiosity shop. She sets off her sleekly whittled nether extremities in Gay Nineties round-striped hose...