Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of a menagerie which an upperclassman collected from among the lowly plebes for the purpose of mild hazing. My place of honor was, as the "Dodo" bird, no uncertain one. I recall that I condescended to associate, at intervals, with the "Wahoo Wahoo" bird and several other fowl of lesser degree. This lasted about one month - since that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact I have no nickname, possibly "Cy" or Johnny or Jack. You have my permission to discontinue the use of Dodo...
...this crisis nearly the whole alphabet of the New Deal will go into the field. WPA will pay an average of $40 to over 100,000 relief workers to build roads, construct dams to save water and through the Bureau of Biological Survey to restore refuges for wild fowl. With $20 a month grants and loans to buy forage, RA will help others to rehabilitate themselves. AAA will help them with $10,000.000 worth of seed loans, with some $30,000.000 to buy livestock. And NYA will provide financial aid so that their children will not have to leave school...
...spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans of calcium carbide, flung one 300 yd. against the side of a coal tower. After 20 min. the twister was lifted back into its mother cloud, drenching the ground with water...
...first floor of the Harvard Hall of 1800 was a large room which served as a dining hall and general meeting place, and another about the same size, used as a chapel. The dining hall's policy was good food and plenty of it. Pork, beef, and fowl formed the backbone of the College diet, with the students frequently eating all three meats at one meal...
...Break the Heart's Anger Poet Engle has taken care to announce his revolutionary sympathies. And from various European vantage-points (almost every poem has a different postmark) he hurls rude remarks toward his native land. He calls the Statue of Liberty "you skirt," Manhattan "you great water fowl.'' He has words of measured praise for Karl Marx, though he qualifies them somewhat by adding that Marx was "no economist, neither philosopher." The D.A.R. will not like his comparing Trotsky to Washington, urging "Let the earth give these men an equal praise...