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...wrote Café Columnist Paul V. Coates in the Los Angeles Mirror, but most of the time she is also a "perfectly lousy cook." So why all this sentimental drivel about "Food Like Mother Used to Make?" Give him a nightclub table any time and some breast of guinea hen...
...Nationalist demolition teams, blowing all bridges that might be used by enemy vehicles. Long columns of weary, bedraggled infantrymen plodded back from the front to take up new positions nearer the city. A young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said, "five, ten men against...
...freshmen picked up another run in the fourth on singles by Ralph Robinson and Hen Akillian and on some mediocre Terrier fielding...
...Once married to her, he starts composing verses about roses and nightingales in the garden outside her bedchamber. When the poems fail to impress the pouting bride, Lund turns on the nearest nightingale and roars: "You silly ass!" In reply, the soundtrack lets out a squawk like a barnyard hen...
...told the Old Sarge, T'm going to bring some of these over to the old duffers.' Sarge shook his head and said 'Do you want to start a riot?' But I persisted and at first I wasn't too welcome ('Damn old hen come asnoopin''). I let the insults slide over me and kept bringing the magazines. Now, believe it or not, I have the old devils talking to each other and we even have sessions of discussion on topics of interest. Some of the old rascals have scrimped and saved...