Word: cock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 137 seats out of a possible 245 and a clear majority over all political parties, the Conservative party ousted Canadian Liberals from their nine-year roost fortnight ago. Last week stern-jowled Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister-elect, was cock of the Canadian walk. Editors in Britain and the U. S. sat back to analyze the results...
...leghorn rooster will tint its comb bluish. Spanish ergot satisfies the formula. Russian ergot as imported into the U. S. docs not. Drug manufacturers have been cleaning Russian ergot of its contaminations and using two pounds of it to make a pint of extract. This Russian extract colors the cock's comb as does the Spanish...
...Iloilo, P. I., a dying steel-spurred righting cock, wildly fluttering, fatally gaffed Juan Martinez, spectator, in the jugular vein...
Last week spring descended upon Martha's Vineyard. Mass, (island five miles off the "heel" of Cape Cod). To greet it the island's animal life let forth their perennial mating calls. Less hopeful than other fauna was the island's famed Heath Cock...
Last year he had joined the chorus and, like the unhappy swain in the mouthwash advertisements, received no answer. This year he refused to waste his breath. Reason: he is the world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they...