Word: hutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life. Take his father, a man who "could rarely get the top off anything . . . was forever trying to unlock something with the key to something else." How could Thurber, or any kid, ever forget that his dad, wearing a derby hat, tried to repair the lock to the rabbit hutch, and "succeeded only after getting inside the cage, where he was imprisoned for three hours with six Belgian hares and thirteen guinea pigs"? Or take his mother, who "once distressed a couple of stately guests in her father's home by descending the front stairs in her dressing gown...
Another boy might have fled from that kind of background into the impersonal logic of physics or mathematics. Not Thurber. As writer and as cartoonist, he became the top U.S. humorist of the day. He did it largely by making all the world a rabbit hutch and every man in it his father's brother. His first 17 books of prose and drawings, with their battles between the sexes, their bewildered males running a maze that leads inevitably into another, are the century's finest guidebooks to the schizophrenic ward of modern man's booby hatch...
...thunderous seven-run fifth inning gave the Bunnies this victory. Even though Funster Bill Grabowski came on to pitch good relief ball, the outburst was enough to secure the win. Lowell Sachnoff led the Hutch attack with four hits, while Bucky O'Connor and Bill Curran made two each...
Leverett's second annual Hutch Day, a 20-hour-long affair, will begin to roll early this morning, when the 350 inhabitants of the lower Plympton Street House and their dates converge on Middlesex Fells for a picnic outing...
Righthander Lew Chizer had rough going over the first two innings, but the Hutch sewed up the decision with a thirdinning explosion. Neal Shulman with three hits, and Bob Wildridge with two paced the Bunny attack. Chizer picked up credit for the win, his fourth...