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...perplexed Parisian newshawks Gertrude Stein explained a libretto she has just completed for her second opera,* a Steinish version of Faust: Faust "sells his soul over and over again hoping to go to hell. He kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is turned into a young man. But Marguerite denies he is Faust and because he cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul...
Julius Peter Hell, 60, of Wisconsin, born on the Rhine, self-made millionaire (furnaces, tanks, snowplows),paternal employer...
...General Hugh Johnson been in Elmer Andrews' shoes, however, hell would surely have popped and dead cats would have passed each other in midair. For far and wide, U. S. businessmen were unhappy. What most of them wanted last week was not relief from upped labor costs but relief from uncertainty. From a Detroit hotel which feared that elevator boys who serve traveling salesmen were engaged in interstate commerce, to a Texas turkey raiser who wanted to know whether employes who gathered his turkey eggs had to get 25? an hour, employers were in a dither to know whether...
Roaring out of a House dining hall yesterday morning in one of those frenzies induced by a coming hour exam, a rollicking Senior just for the hell of it bawled over his shoulder to the nearby hostess as he went out the door: "Send an order of griddle cakes over to the House Library for me. I'll be hungry a little later...
...narrator) to the woods and clam beds: "There'd be the smell of new clover hay and cornflowers in the air and by'n'by the fire would get low and go out and you'd see the fireflies . . . and way off somewhere -t'hell 'n' gone over the river-you'd hear a cowbell...