Word: hens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew in, later to meet his parents arriving from ZebuIon, N.C., then to attend a rehearsal and post-rehearsal dinner for the bridal party. On the wedding eve she relented slightly, agreed to join Daniel in a 20-minute press conference for 50 encamped reporters. (Sample exchange: News hen: "I would like to ask what may be an embarrassing question . . ." Daniel...
Nest Egg. In Lubbock, Texas, Robert Lee was arrested for illegal possession of liquor after agents searched his farm, found bottles hidden in the turkey pen, under a rabbit hutch, in the chicken coop, under a setting hen...
...guilty of constant breaches of the rigidly conventional behavior that Foreign Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort of costume, reinforced...
...youngest, Tad, but all four Lincoln sons had received a private emancipation proclamation from the man they called "Pa." His attitude was: "Let the children have a good time." Biographer Randall (Mary Lincoln), widow of the late Lincoln scholar J. G. Randall, brings a mother-hen style to her bundle of anecdotes that will wholly please only devoted parents and memorabilia collectors, but the book does light up Lincoln as father, and what it means to grow up in the shadow of a great...
...becoming a great samurai. He soon has a chance when a rabble of bandits raid the farm. Toshiro kills the bandit chief and routs his men, then becomes a beast of the hills. He sweeps back into his native village, scattering the militia like a cat in a hen roost...