Word: hens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many tycoons at one time as he did last week at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bosses of Du Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great industry came to eat breast of guinea hen with Forbes (at his expense) and get illuminated scrolls naming them "Today's 50 Foremost Business Leaders...
Absolved of obscenity: Poets Gaius Valerius Catullus and Vincent McHugh; by a grand jury in Manhattan. The jury threw out a suit brought last spring by famed Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner, who had objected to a phallic "Suite from Catullus" in Adaptei McHugh's book, The Blue Hen's Chickens, Sumner, who caid he was "not at all surprised," was now operating his battered old Society for the Suppression of Vice under a slightly more delicate name: the Society to Maintain Public Decency...
Disarmament. In McAllen, Tex., a hen finally got rid of that old rifle cartridge by laying an egg with the cartridge inside...
...Four. Perry Jones (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), mother hen of California's tennis chicks, was the first of four men who helped mold Jake Kramer into a champion. Fussbudget Perry Jones-who says "I don't care how you hit your backhand . . . how do your pants look?"-liked the kid's looks; he was neat and polite. At Jones's suggestion the Kramer family moved in closer to Los Angeles where many of the good tennis players lived...
...hen screams frightfully when she sees an eagle but she is only afraid for her children, men are afraid for themselves, that is the real difference between men and women . . . Yes some day some day the women will vote and by that time ... it will do them no good because having the vote they will become like men, they will be afraid, having the vote will make them afraid...