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Word: chicken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such last week was the clinical history of a sensationally severe toothache which, complicated by an attack of indigestion caused by the squab chicken he ate at the National Press Club dinner last fortnight, caused Franklin Roosevelt to cancel all engagements for four days. The engagements included two press conferences, a speech at Mt. Vernon which Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace delivered in his stead, a conference with utility company heads which was postponed to this week. It did not cause him to cancel a chat with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, which took place in his private quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Toothache | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Chicken Dinner a specialty. Special dinners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINE AND DANCE | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...Athons special dinner served nightly from $.55 to $1.50. Chicken another specially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINE AND DANCE | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...Chicken Dinner a specialty. Special dinners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINE AND DANCE | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...Genesee Depot the Lunts live in a converted chicken house during their vacations, raise choice broccoli, cantaloupe, a wide variety of herbs, vegetables and flowers, swim in the swimming pool that Design for Living paid for, pamper their dachshunds Elsa and Rudolf, indulge in fancy cookery, their mutual hobby. It is the same farm, lovingly elaborated, where Alfred lived as a boy. Natives still call him Bill, a nickname he got from worshipping a boyhood hero, Buffalo Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mr. & Mrs. | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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