Word: hobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orders would also play hob with West Coast agriculture. In the Los Angeles area, Japanese produce more than half the truck crops?especially celery, spinach, beets, string beans?vegetables which take infinite work and patience. In Santa Cruz County, a $500,000 crop of sprouts and artichokes awaited harvesting by Italians. Most of California's tomato crop, which accounts for a fourth of U.S. canned tomatoes, has been grown by Japanese farmers...
Last week the only U.S. citizen known to have escaped from fallen Hong Kong told how a hell-for-leather, 6 ft.-2 in. San Francisco chiropractor played hob with Japanese nerves in a last-ditch fight to postpone the Crown Colony's collapse, leaving little or nothing to nature...
...result of two semi-finals played yesterday afternoon in the wind and rain at Divinity Field. A1 Everts, defending champion, and Hob Freedman, seeded number two, will fight it out for top honors in the final round of the University tennis tournament...
...other semi-final match, Junior Jim Jenkins, seeded number three fell before the onslaught of Hob Freedman, singles star on last year's Yale team, by the score of 6-0, 7-5. Pending, good were the finals will probably be played this Friday at the Divinity courts...
...endings, but of no long runs. The cast is obviously hand-picked, and it is hard to single out any actor for special mention since all were good. Mildred Natwick deserves extra praise for her superb portrayal of the elderly, but energetic, medium whose series of trances raise hob with the spiritual world. Leorora Corbett, as the product of one of these trances, plays the blithe spirit to perfection. The rest are also swell, even down to the maid, whose small part is a true Coward...