Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support their contention they claim that he always were rubbers tied on with rubber bands, even when he was indoors. They also maintain that when he died there were 20 hornet nests in his bedroom
...year age level. As a result instead of making even a feeble effort to improve the average mind, the guiding hands of radio chose long ago the path of least resistance--programs are brought down to the average level. This is the only rational explanation of the "Green Hornet" adventures, the comedians, and the "dramatic" sketches which currently clutter the air-waves...
...what was perhaps the clumsiest piece of buck-passing ever perpetrated, Police Commissioner Timilty last Friday traced Boston's juvenile delinquency back to the "Dean End Kids." Mr. Timilty's statement, which was made following the daring capture of five 13-year-old members of the Green Hornet Gang, deplored "the harm these pictures are doing to young minds," and ended on a note of despair: "There is nothing the police can do about them...
That droning--an airplane? Japs? Germans? Reds? It swells and fades, angry, important, businesslike. Ah, a wasp, or is it a hornet, zooms gracefully through the window and roars headlong into the closet. Sudden silence. Probably sampling the various gravy and beer spots on the Vagabond's suit. That'll hold him for a while--maybe kill him. The Vagabond relaxes: let's see, history review today. Damn, action again. The wasp-hornet breezes out of the closet, squats on the bowl of a pipe, sharpens up his stinger with his hind legs, hums contentedly to himself...
...turn everything arsy-versy. The high jinks soar highest when the three little minxes throw a midnight spread in their bedroom and ask a few of the boys to drop in. Right in the midst of their lark who should appear but old Donkin himself, mad as a hornet...