Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman'' or midwife because of the frequency with which unwanted babies were born dead under her ministrations. Unfortunately mothers often died as well. One day Mrs. Fazekas saw a fly sip from a saucer in which was a sheet of arsenical flypaper, drop dead. She saw a chicken eat the fly and drop dead in turn. Mrs. Fazekas pondered these interesting phenomena, then ordered great quantities of flypaper from neighboring villages...
...sincere." Little Black Stories have been bandied around African firesides by big black boys and girls for centuries. The book is a smash hit with French children and adults. Here rhythmically translated from the French, the stories are of hares, mice, alligators, a tree frog, a wind, an unborn chicken, all reverently humanized. France's Author Cendrars, alone in Russia at 15, made his living roaming from Lapland to the Caucasus; from Mongolia to Siberia to China. In 1908 he landed in Manhattan from a tramp steamer, turned poet. Later he lost his right arm in the War, wrote...
They have more scandal on the top of their tongue than the famous Barber's cat, and for sport they are worse than a lot of chicken doctors. So if ever I should be on a jury there are three parties I would never believe under oath, ministers, policemen and D.D.S...
Although many were unable to hear the words of untalented Voroshilov for the snorting of horses, his remarks were taken as a subtle insult to the non-Communist Polish army across the frontier. Polish farmers whose hayricks and chicken yards may be commandeered during maneuvers just as in actual war times, regard the war games of the Polish army as an unavoidable annual catastrophe...
...that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying...