Word: hennings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inferno. In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. S. S. Hill heard strange noises under the front porch of his new house, called firemen to investigate. From a 20-ft. dry cistern were lifted (all alive) a chow, a Boston bulldog, a white Angora cat, a red hen...
...quick deafening scream, then a shell exploded a few feet away from the farmhouse. Dirt splattered through the stable windows on to the doughboys lying in the straw and manure inside. Another shell tore open the black soil near by. Four bundles of feathers fluttered from the hen house down to the ground. "If all they get is chickens, we've got a good day ahead," 'said Toffey. Three more explosions within 25 yards shook the house and stable. A wide-eyed replacement raised his head from the floor and gasped: "Them's bombs...
...annual U.S. Mayors' Conference, held last week in Chicago, a Tribune reporter asked New York City's razor-tongued Fiorello LaGuardia if he would consider entering a wastepaper-collecting race with Chicago's tousle-thatched Edward J. Kelly. Cracked hen-shaped Fiorello: "No. . . . Chicago has an unfair advantage. . . . Look at all the people who throw away the Tribune...
...which he drops this kind of offbeat remark is the essence of Morgan's radio character. He is never at a loss for a sly ad lib. or a vocal innuendo. As a comedian, Morgan can shoot through the yolk of a new-laid egg "without making the hen get up." For this arch archery he gets $3,500 a week-$1,500 less than Comedienne Brice. He also manages to make several pictures a year for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But when his own show is airborne, he will cost the sponsor $5,000 to $7,000 weekly...
...Victory-gardened feverishly last spring. During the current wastepaper drive he has been pictured swooping patriotically. Except for allowing him an annual New Year's Eve binge, Heimer and Pause keep Arpad continent despite many protests from other staffers that he should enjoy the society of a hen now & then...