Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cackle of 10,000 assorted fowl, delegates from 45 foreign nations and poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week...
...Some chicken facts...
...tends a poor author's baby, breaks up Mole's engagement to a rich Irish girl, ages two years in time, ten years in feminine finesse. John Barry Benefield's new novel is cut to the same master pattern as his previous successes (The Chicken-Wagon Family, about 50,000 copies; Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, over 75,000 copies). Like them, it should please readers willing to "enter upon a surprising and beautiful adventure" wherein dream girls are "spirited, but with moderation, in the classic way." Like his hero, Mole, slight, whimsical Novelist Benefield...
...well all have chicken dumplin...
...spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator was sent a homing pigeon with instructions for releasing...