Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening sessions of the Hawaiian legislature go, last week's was positively funereal. Only two hula dancers-instead of the usual two dozen-undulated through the halls of Iolani Palace, threading in & out the aisles around the legislators. There was only one band and one glee club to accompany them. The 30 members of the house and their 15 colleagues in the senate dispensed with the normal rounds of comradely hotfoots and other such capers and grimly got down to business...
Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas, vacationing in Persia with his son, was merely enjoying an innocent holiday. The Justice, said a Russian broadcast to Persia, was in reality "an arrogant speculator" who, with "a dozen devils . . . that is, U.S. Army officers in mountaineering outfits," was climbing Persia's mountains to spy on the Soviet border...
...Tokyo suburb one day last week, near the spot where a sabotaged railroad train had just killed six people, a ramshackle automobile flying a tattered red Rising Sun flag drew up with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
...first-sacker on a girls' high-school baseball team (which she once was), approaches the microphone like a polite salesgirl (which she also was) addressing a customer. About half the time, Mindy is not at her best. She still has to jog the echoes of half a dozen better-known singers out of her ears; but in top form, her voice is clear as spring water...
...Runyon First and Last, a collection of his earliest and last pieces, there are two mildly amusing Broadway stories and over three dozen sketches written between 1907 and 1915 in Runyon's youthful, pre-formula days. One of them, a hobo story called "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew," is a report of a murder told in a bantering tone reminiscent of Ring Lardner. Others are gentle spoofs on his old home town in the West, sketches of Army life in the Spanish-American War, or idyllic reminiscences of childhood...