Word: hen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Pirate. One day in 1935 brown-haired Mollie Slott, mother-hen of the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate, marched in to the late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, the P. T. Barnum of the U.S. comic strip. "There's a young chap in my office," she told him, "with a letter from John McCutcheon." Patterson groaned: "What, another fraternity brother?" Said Mollie: "But this is the one who does Dickie Dare" Her sons had sold her on Dickie, and she had given the boss a batch of the strips to look...
Higgledy-Piggledy. In New Castle, Pa., Ray Walker's hen lays an egg on his porch every morning at 8:30, pecks at the door until he comes to pick...
...their praise well-modulated. In the New York Times "outstanding-books-of-the-year" poll of critics, not a single book got the votes of all reviewers. The best that could be said was that 1946 furnished spectacular cash-register successes. Betty MacDonald's cackling (1945) hen epic, The Egg and I, went to some 1,200,000 copies; Peace of Mind, Joshua Loth Liebman's "blue skies" book (the trade name for a consoling self-help handbook) sold over 250,000 copies, largely on its title. A string of novels (see box), most of them with gaudy...
...just try to get inside. At a circus, a clown named "Karandash" (pencil) kept dashing into the ring with a little white hen, which escaped in a flutter of feathers. "Why do you beat your hen?" asked the ringmaster. Answers Karandash: "Because she only gives me powdered eggs...
...made Shanghai into a model city, but as its tireless mayor he has quashed the rice black market, raised coolie living standards and, by a combination of cajoling, arguing and policing, kept labor troubles at a minimum. His Confucius-like warning to labor and capital: "When hen is dead, no eggs will come." Called "The Mandarin Mayor" by some resentful employers and union men, K. C. Wu has won the support of foreigners, one of whom recently said: "If China had more K. C. Wus, I'd know the Chinese could run China." He has had to grapple with...