Word: cocking
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...chicken himself, crowed and cackled and talked of nothing but the poultry. At the age of five he said, "Now I am small, now I am a chicken. When I get bigger, I shall be a fowl. When I am bigger still, I shall be a cock." Heimer's words fit him to a startling degree: "[Arpad's] a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane-one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...
...Disciples Chaplains will be entertained at the Cock Horse Inn by Chaplain Ellwood C. Nance of the Chaplain School faculty...
...newspaper birds. He cavorts in the New York World-Telegram's weather stories, has become one of the big town's richest chuckles. A happy combination of oaf and genius, he is a blithe and silly little rooster, and the stories in which he appears have a cock eyed quality and an underlying mood of ennui. Samples...
...deal has yet been made: the U.S. giants still righteously maintain that the only thing that keeps them from showing more British pictures is that there are not enough worth showing. Up to now, the cock-of-the-walk U.S. industry has had no reason to be cartel-minded, because it has had no really formidable international competition. But as Morris Ernst puts it: "Develop a giant to deal with a giant." If & when he can produce the pictures, J. Arthur Rank looks like a likely giant...
...Disciples of Christ Chaplains met at the Cock Horse Inn last night for a dinner, at which the Reverend Percy Austin, minister of the Christian Church, Everett, was guest of honor, Chaplain Ellwood C. Nance, of the Faculty of the Chaplain School, presided...