Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delaware, Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, the chicken-feed dealer who started the Internal Revenue Bureau scandal exposures, outran Lieut. Governor Alexis I. du Pont Bayard. Williams' standing as an exposer of corruption enabled him to overcome the formidable qualifications of Bayard, who comes from a direct line of five U.S. Senators (from his father to his great-great-great-grandfather), and whose mother is a du Pont...
...were complaining, and the agency had lost three big accounts. Moreover, the defendants charged that Jones paid $400 a month to two of his sisters for "premium ideas" which were seldom used by the agency, and $8,000 a year to a brother, Alfred Jones, who ran a Connecticut chicken farm. In his own testimony, Jones admitted that he was a heavy drinker, but insisted that the chicken farm came in handy for entertaining clients...
According to legend a group of students, after they were ejected from their boarding house after a chicken croquette fight, rented an old house, hired a Negro cook, bought a stove, and Ivy club was in business...
...cluttered apartment and escort him to dinner. Last week the Prince reached his 80th birthday, and all France rallied to wish him bon appétit. Some hundred of the nation's most famed restaurateurs and gourmets gathered to share with the master a simple dinner of chicken bouillon, lobster jellied in champagne, spitted ham and truffles, 80 varieties of choice cheeses, bombe glacee and cake, all washed down with simple white Muscadet and 1947 Pu-ligny-Montrachet. "Simple French cooking is always the best," says Curnonsky. "When you've eaten a perfect meal, you know...
...premiums of only $1 a month for an entire family. The Chicago Better Business Bureau was told by postal inspectors that 67% of the death claims were rejected, and 24% brought payments of $10 or less. Among the small-print conditions on Westminster health inSurance: policyholders were insured against chicken pox, mumps and measles-provided they were over 60 and under 80. Westminster and Koolish were indicted for fraud in 1948, but the charge was" dropped because the indictment was faultily drawn. To such charges, Koolish, who gave up punch-boards years ago, says: "That's going back...