Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abortive. Arrowsmith's country practice in her home town - Wheatsylvania, N. D. - was satisfying (despite her puny relatives) until he indulged in research to cure a cattle-plague gratuitously, and was over cautious concerning a smallpox scare. The research aroused unbearable little professional jealousies. The pox turned out chicken, not small, and left raillery behind it. So again he cleared out, seeking his chance with a very modern, very shrewd private clinic in Chicago. Such clinics deal in fads, however, not in facts. He was sidetracked again - until his research bore fruit in an appointment to McGurk Institute, Manhattan...
Then, with rather poor taste?a failing of the Marlboroughs?he read the menu, gloated pseudo-maliciously over the fact that cocktails went with hors d'oeuvres, sherry with the soup, sauterne with the fish, red wine with the entree, champagne with the chicken, port for toasts to the King and President, brandy with the coffee...
...Passed a bill providing $100,000 for the eradication of a European chicken pest which has infected poultry in a number of states and giving the Department of Agriculture power to fight all contagious diseases of poultry. (Went to House...
...Passed the Senate bill appropriating $100,000 to fight the chicken pest. (Went to President...
...Hall enticed Christmas Day customers by publishing a menu featuring Blue Point oysters on shell, grouse, chicken, turkey, and Kirsch punch...