Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baser passions. In fact, the sex in "Ecstasy" makes a noble effort to be etherial, cosmic, and all very symbolic. Perhaps this was the director's secret, haunting ideal. If so, he came far from realizing it on celluloid, What he did realize was neither fish nor fowl; neither good, healthy cinepornography, nor a great, emotional masterpiece that would poeticize the Biological Urge. There were the makings of a truly important picture in "Ecstasy." The scarcity of dialogue, the drifting, almost aimless pace, the startling photography, all would have given the picture rare distinction had they been carried out with...
...Conference "Ding" Darling formed his National Wildlife Federation, a fish-flesh-&-fowl made up of all factions in the conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified at last, have pushed through many a national and State fish-&-game law. Last week, when the fourth annual North American Wildlife Conference opened in Detroit, the Federation was going strong...
...bright green, oblong fruit which grows on small evergreen trees, citron uncooked is about as unpalatable as raw fowl; its pulp is bitter, its rind thick and tough. After being soaked in brine and cooked in syrup, however, it has a sugary quality much like other candied fruit. Some 5,000,000 lb. of citron are used annually in U. S. fruitcakes, candies and pastries, yet the fruit has never been produced in quantities in the U. S.; most of it comes from Sicily, Italy, the West Indies...
...anything to say. Said he: "Nothing in particular except that Mr. Dubinsky. whom I esteem highly, seems to be giving an imitation of Eliza crossing the ice and looking backward like Lot's wife. I think he ought to finally decide whether he is flesh or fowl or good red herring...
Dissatisfaction with the size of his role was conceded to be the cause of the Sealyham's action. He suspected fowl play...