Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Renard, lusting for chicken fricasee, disguises herself as a nun and attempts to make off with the Cock, but is foiled by the alertness of the Cat and the Goat, who frighten her away. Renard tries again, disguised as a tramp, and, with the lure of sweetmeats, almost gets her way with the Cock. She begins to pluck the screaming fowl when the Cat and the Goat again come to the rescue and dispatch the marauder, ending the piece with a dance of triumph...
...Weech, of the Johns Hopkins University, has found that the serum taken from the blood of those who have recovered from chicken pox, if injected into susceptible children, seems to prevent their catching the disease. Nine infants, who had been exposed to the disease, were given injections of the serum from one to six days after exposure. Eight of them did not contract the disease...
...when the knockout to the point of the chin was still unknown, such colorful fighters as Buckhorse, "singularly unsightly," Jack Slack (the Bristol butcher), Mendoza the Jew (founder of scientific boxing, the first boxer to go on the stage), Mr. Jackson (the first "gentleman" fighter), the Belchers, the Game Chicken, and Daniel Donnelly (an Irishman) of whom it was written...
...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained ''enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a ten penny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store for 98?.-TIME...
...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained "enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store...