Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News of another strange medicament last week came from White Plains, N. Y. For ten years John M. Hill, warden of the Westchester County Jail at White Plains, kept a white-feathered Japanese silky rooster, a long-tailed fowl with a bluish skin, rare in the U. S. (current value $100). The rooster's name was Murphy. He disliked women, would peck at their legs, would win poultry show prizes...
Bald eagles feed chiefly on carrion. Occasionally they snatch up water fowl, rabbits, fawns or lambs, or make the smarer, smaller osprey their catspaw for a fish diet. There is no authenticated case-even in Spring, when hungry eaglets are yammering in the eyries-of a bald eagle attacking the young of the animal who has made him National Bird...
...establishment grew large. She surrounded it with a high board fence. Chief denizens were "saints," all female. Lesser in her hierarchy were "prophets" and "apostles." They bred fowl; dug for themselves a "Sea of Gethsemane"; prayed to a vast, crudely carved Jesus, who was black because the Scriptures did not say that he was not black. Awesome was the Deity, a towering figure the color of roast potatoes, made of clay and burlap...
...Federal Fowl...
Shortening of all open seasons on wild fowl by 15 days...