Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the Dempsey-Tunney fight was held." He said: "Greatest American? Lindbergh, undoubtedly. Next President ? Oh, probably Charley Hughes. Locarno pact? What's that?" Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane took occasion to flay Mr. Gray: "He never reads the foreign news, just goes along through life very much like any chicken in his chicken yard, if he has a chicken yard. Fortunately for the nation it is not made up exclusively of average citizens...
BUGLES IN THE NIGHT-Barry Benefield-Century ($2). Remembering that his first novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, was likened by the critics to Dickens, Barrie, etc., Mr. Benefield dangerously approaches cuteness in Bugles in the Night. He too visibly remembers to be whimsical, to introduce characters named Bullwinkle, Crackle, Wimpfheimer. Easley Wheatley, Confederate soldier, runs away to New York from the old soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow...
When, after that war, he followed the career of his father, Dr. John Haven Emerson, he observed that children did grow taller in the springtime. They also took sick with colds, fevers, measles, scarlatina, scarlet fever, chicken-pox?in the springtime...
...variety of offerings served, the audience is requested to take what it likes and leave the rest. That is a capital idea. Unfortunately theatrical limitations impose upon Miss Stewart's revue, as indeed upon all others, the table d'hote principle. You cannot taste her chicken and custard without swallowing her bean soup and sauerkraut in the same performance. There is, first of all, a dancer, Harriet Hoctor, who, as a fairy doll, breezes across the stage like melody and floats away on a fancy that all the rest of mankind is clopping through life with one foot...
...White Plains, N. Y., one Paul Mateyoke, 30, was surrounded by angry neighbors, turned over to the police, for ejecting Susie Mateyoke, 75, his mother, from his house and making her live in the chicken coop for two weeks; also for allegedly breaking her left arm with a hurled stone, for blacking her left eye and breaking her left eardrum with right hand punches...