Word: flock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rooster who found the big egg, our only intent is to be helpful. This rooster in his wanderings discovered an ostrich egg. He had visions of glorious omelets, generous fries and unlimited scrambles. With infinite labor he rolled his find back to his home pen. Calling his faithful flock together acid pointing to the big egg, he said: 'This is not intended as any reflection upon you. It is merely to show you what can be done...
Florida's Real Estate Boom has brought, it was asserted, a flock of quacks and irregular medical practitioners to that state...
Logan Herbert Roots: Bishop of Hankow; true shepherd of a foreign flock, who has spent his lire in teaching to Chinese the significance of Christianity...
...Geneva, for at least one month in the year, presumably September, has become the most important spot in the world, or at any rate important enough to warrant the strict attention of all civilized mankind, including both supporters and opponents of the League. To this ancient town every fall flock from all parts of the the globe statesmen, politicians who are not statesmen, journalists, authors, students, and sight-seers. As a spectacle alone this varied gathering is well worth looking at. But for anyone who is something more than a gaping tourist Geneva in September is far more than just...
...family and the village. He ran errands, dug in the garden and walked, when not in demand, to South Egdon, for respite from mankind's puzzling beastliness. This he found in his only friend, Henry Neville, the South Egdon curate, a sickly ascetic who was hated by his flock because he did not bully them into religion as a proper curate should. Instead he forgave them their malice, an effrontery that he aggravated when he robbed them of the pleasure of stoning him to death by taking poison to end a mortal illness...