Word: fowling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those present, the persons, staring about them with ennui or enthusiasm were the most absurd. The rabbits crawled about in wire enclosures, their noses twitching with annoyance, their legs dragging in bewildered apathy. The guinea pigs dozed or squeaked with fury. The fowl alone presented a pleasing appearance. Their bright plumes flashed and glittered; their stupid, shining eyes were red with pride or excitement as they strutted, with an excess of vigor, around their tiny hutches. The air, dark with smoke, lacking the dusty sweetness of a barnyard, was filled with the shrill, silly clamor of their voices. Roosters, supercharged...
...contest. The 4-H Club ("head, heart, hands and health") is an organization of boys and girls fostered by the Department of Agriculture to encourage an interest in farm life. The judging contest is a contest in which the members of the 4-H Club handed their opinions of fowl to the real judges...
...desired in the way of smoothness, the two leading ladies are a pleasure to watch--particularly, we thought, Miss Brinkley in the part of Delphine. And then of course De Wolfe Hopper is in the cast. But on the whole "White Lilacs" is neither fish, flesh nor fowl nor, as the name might imply good, erotic, red herring...
...Vagabond has just returned from celebrating the anniversary of the one time in all the year that his Puritan forebears had a good time. For three centuries the last Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity...
...submitting eggs from any breed of chicken to the X-rays generated by 10,000 to 40,000 volts of electricity he produces pullets in every case.† They are immune to fowl diseases; they grow 40% faster than poults from untreated eggs...