Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saucy little book called The Point of Parliament, a collection of Punch articles, last week was selling like nylons on London bookstalls. The author was Sir Alan (A.P.) Herbert, M.P., professional humorist, amateur pedant and enthusiastic beller of stray cats...
First speaker of the evening, Dean Hanford outlined expansion of the University since the first freshman class met behind a fence erected against stray cattle and wolves. The swollen 5,000 man enrollment this year is a far cry, he pointed out, from those beginnings...
Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues...
...children. They ate figs, chicory weeds, green apples, and frogs caught in the ditches. For the first time in his life, the peasant Innocenzo Pietropaoli went begging. In the fall he got a job as a harvester on another man's farm. His wife walked behind him, gleaning stray ears of wheat (eleven pounds...
...forgets it and gets to talking about a stray cat from a carnival pitch, a good-looking girl, with a hard voice, named Lane Ballou (Judith Parrish). She gets involved in Semple's machinations and winds up first in the country prison farm, then in the local house of ill repute. The girl's part is not well played, and accenting it makes "Flamingo Road" frequently border on standard melodrama...