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Word: gizzard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then Vag closed the book and remembered what day it was, and ran over to the dining room and ate four turkey legs and a gizzard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...Seattle, Wash., Mrs. William Morgan had a $100 diamond pecked from her ring while she was feeding her poultry. In hopes of recovering it, the Morgan family cooked and carefully chewed a chicken a day for 18 days. The diamond was finally found in a rooster's gizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...eyes of Peter Giachino, a gunner of Raymboultown, Mich., popped one day last week when he took out the innards of a partridge he had shot. Coiled in the bird's gullet, still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Snake-Eating Partridge | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...Gizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Salina, Kan., Mrs. Bert Phelps prepared a Gore County chicken for cooking. Frugally, as well as to give Mr. Phelps a giblet he likes, she split the hen's gizzard, peeled out the musk. In the olive green debris were flecks of metallic yellow. A jeweler found them, gold, worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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