Word: fowle
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...World War I, a hunter bagged some pheasants which he wanted to keep for his Christmas dinner. As an accommodation, an ice-plant operator named J. A. Winchell plunked the birds into a water-filled milk can, froze them in a solid ice cake. On Christmas Day the frozen fowl came out of the ice cake fresh...
...save grains, whiskey production last week was decreased two-thirds, despite Britain's need for salable exports. To save mutton, macon-making has been stopped.* (One shilling ten pence a week may be spent on pork, beef or mutton per adult, fish and fowl excepted.) Not until 1918 was that necessary last time...
Primitivist Pippin paints mostly at night, still works months on each picture. He and his wife (who calls him "Pippin") live happily on his wound benefit and the washing she takes in, always have turkey for Christmas, goose for New Year's, guinea fowl for their birthdays. Says Horace Pippin: "My opinion of art is that a man . . . paints from his heart and mind. To me it seems impossible for another to teach...
...Herr Hitler made the ironic announcement that the northern end of Sylt, a 23-mile sandspit off the Danish-German border, was closed to visitors because it was now a, "bird sanctuary." Every one knew that Sylt's birds were mechanical fowl, their eggs bombs, their nests at List and Westerland protected by coast artillery. One night last week Danes witnessed the bombing of a row of flares set in Rantum Bay to guide Nazi raiders home, another night saw a bomb hit the Hindenburg Dam, a causeway over tidal flats connecting Sylt with the mainland. Danish observers...
...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...