Word: cock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shells gave way after he had drilled 1,200 or 1,500 holes, but Nephtalie Kahn never lost his temper. In all he has embroidered 26 eggs. Some of his better known pieces are the ostrich series, showing a butterfly, the salamander of Francois I. and a Gallic cock on which he employed 214 different colors of silk. His masterpiece is a duck egg called "Rouen" which bears the arms of the city. It contains 5,342 holes, some of them only 1/10 millimeter apart. It took him eight months to embroider it and before the egg was blown, drilled...
...March 17 and 18 Pi Eta fraternity will give its annual musical show at the club house. The production being staged this year is "It Won't Be Long Now" by Roland May-cock '33. The show is a musical comedy with special emphasis on the comic opera type. It is a story of college life and polo...
...usually wire their contributions. Those who do not win have another consolation: some may be invited to the Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace to hear the tankas composed by members of the Imperial family. This ceremony occurred last week. Subject of this year's composition was "The Cock's Crowing at Dawn," considered by most an easier subject to suggest* in 31 syllables than those stumpers of recent years: "Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe," "The Coloring of the Mountain Becomes More Brilliant." Wrapped in his state kimono. Baron Imazono stood in the Phoenix Hall...
...Cock of the Air (Howard Hughes), which was vigorously censored before release, emerges as a not particularly happy Wartime farce in which Chester Morris, as a scatter-brained aviator, jokes with, flies with, drinks with, wrestles with and finally suggests matrimony with Billie Dove, as a Parisian actress, whose costume armor is heard clanking to the floor at the end of the picture. Typical shot: Chester Morris squirting seltzer at Billie Dove when she slaps him for an improper proposal...