Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems that TIME is confusing Sir Thomas with Thomas Moore, the national poet of Ireland (1779-1852), whose favorite dish was corned beef . . . Sir Thomas More was a vegetarian from shortly after he entered Oxford to the extent that he eschewed flesh, fish and fowl...
...majority of these laws are rather old, dating back to the late 1880s. Under a 1893 statute, for instance, no goats, sheep, domestic fowl, swine, horses, oxen, or cows are allowed to ream at large through the streets...
...insensitive animals anyway, and that game roosters fare better than most common chickens, which end up in a fricassee without having a chance to defend themselves. Game cocks cannot be kept at large with another rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss a small harem of hens until three weeks before a fight...
...ceiling on what we have to buy as well as on what we have to sell." The political opposition was scornful. The government's move, scoffed Tory Leader John Bracken, is "an empty gesture in an almost pathetic attempt to satisfy public opinion. . . . Neither fish nor fowl...
...Mont presented Newscaster Walter Compton, who tended to overact. Compton was followed by a slow-burning Lucky Strike commercial (with the man who knows tobacco best looking fussed), and three short films (hunting dogs, wild fowl, a dance band...