Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seventh story is worth the rest of the book together. Little Foxes recounts how a few enlightened Englishmen nobly shouldered the white man's burden in an Ethiopian province, and introduced civilization in its highest form-the fox hunt. With an efficiency extraordinary in the colonies, they soon had organized the whole province around the hunt, so that it became an indispensable function of government...
...Martita Hunt is in the title role and she does handsomely by it. Her Madwoman is warm and human and views the world through a dewy spider's web which she is constantly brushing from her eyes. It is an inspired performance. Other outstanding players are Estelle Winwood, as the Madwoman's gaily demented pal, John Carradine as the oratorical rag-picker, and Lydia Westman and Elconora Mendelssohn as the other accomplices...
...money yarns, The Cocktail Party is a woozy piece about a misunderstood writer who finds understanding in his young son; The Pheasant Hunter is a restrained and moving sketch of a boy who is learning to hunt. Saroyan was not exactly underpaid for either of them, but the second is good enough to suggest that if he could ever drop his vast enterprise in egocentricity he might write some first-rate stories...
Reconnaissance. In Cleveland, Mrs. Hilda Hunt, suing for divorce, charged that when her husband rolled in at 4 a.m., he insisted on waking her up and asking whether she was angry...
...dozen hounds had an appointment with a New Jersey fox one day last week. It was, as the club's pro huntsman told a New York Times reporter afterward, "the longest, hardest, most harrowing and most exhausting appointment" in the history of the Essex Fox Hound Hunt Club...