Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling...
...cackle of 10,000 assorted fowl, delegates from 45 foreign nations and poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week...
Last year, when asked why he named his lovely new sloop Goose (reputedly a foolish fowl), 61-year-old Sailor Nichols chirped: "Because it seems a bit foolish to go into the keen six-meter competition at my age." Last week George Nichols demonstrated that he and his Goose were anything but foolish: they outsmarted the Scandinavians at their own game in their home waters, won the Gold Cup in three straight races for the second year in a row. On both sides of the Atlantic, Goose was hailed as the world's fastest small boat, George Nichols...
...headed Artist Scott inherited not only his father's features but his liking for open air. At intellectual Trinity College, Cambridge, he lived unsociably with a pet snake and an owl, spent his vacations duck-hunting and sailing. For his painting he chose an open-air subject-wild fowl...
...forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers and their dense delta tangles, survivors of the South's once great game supply-wild fowl, deer, turkeys-still abound, now enjoyed by rich Yankees who have bought up the old plantations...