Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zoning Law. In Los Angeles, the City Council unanimously adopted a policy toward backyard chicken farming: $500 and six months in jail for the owner of any crowing fowl within 100 ft. of a neighbor...
...various activities of the chicken yard. He thought he was a chicken himself, crowed and cackled and talked of nothing but the poultry. At the age of five he said, "Now I am small, now I am a chicken. When I get bigger, I shall be a fowl. When I am bigger still, I shall be a cock." Heimer's words fit him to a startling degree: "[Arpad's] a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane-one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...
Waring & Teller say they could go on to tell about ducks, geese, guinea fowl, calves and kids and steers, maple sugar, vinegar and wine and the value of conserving game on the farm, but they trust that in a few paragraphs their readers will get the idea about diversification. As for orchards, they doubt the value of putting much time and money into them. They have never been able to eat enough peaches or apples to recover the cost of spraying for home...
...lived away from home wrapped in "strange religious practices," but consented to dine at his wife's table each Tuesday. On these occasions he screwed knives and forks into the stump of his artificial arm and carved "with speed and even transport, muttons, filets, small game and fowl...
...grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...