Word: hens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Kenward's baker's dozen of women is carefully-perhaps too carefully -varied: a hard-bitten doctor, her tough-as-leather assistant who lives on benzedrine, a hen-brained Southern girl, a vengeful English one, a onetime burlesque queen, a Brooklyn babe, an unconscious Lesbian. Under incessant gunfire, they grow jittery, wisecracking, quarrelsome, valiant. In the last tense scenes, as realistic bombs and anti-aircraft fire literally rock the theater and the audience, the Fifth Columnist holds the other girls at bay with a revolver after the shelter entrance is blocked. At the end the Japs drive...
During the 1941 fall hunting season, Kalaf asked all quail hunters, but none had seen these strange birds. Then last week his young son Stanley rushed into the house with big news-back in the hills he had seen a hajjel hen with a large brood of chicks. Kalaf went out to check for himself, and there they were "chuk-chirrring" around as if they owned the Pinal Mountains-a development which may well come about, if the agile hajjel is as tough as Kalaf thinks...
Thereupon the board deferred 35 of the 42 men slated for Aug. 28 induction and last week, like a hen that had laid a large egg and fainted, the board resigned in a body...
Though given every consideration, Eustace would not improve. Finally a farm boy who wore the Distinguished Flying Cross thought he had solved Eustace's problem. Another expedition to Gambut returned with Clarabelle, the shapeliest hen in town. Eustace crowed his pleasure. The R.A.F. courteously left Eustace and Clarabelle alone...
...virtuoso, but for his experience tootling in summer bands. Shocked at their slipshod playing, their lack of rehearsals, he bowed to an ambition-to bring orchestral nuances to band music. At the first rehearsal of Goldman's own band, the players found their parts a mass of hen tracks in red ink, detailed instructions for phrasing, etc. Said one musician: "This is just like a kindergarten." But one rehearsal converted them. The Goldman Band developed into a precision instrument...