Word: gobbler
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...wear well. The style contributes to this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey as a "Mucilaginous miscellany of stuffed gobbler" one feels slightly out of one's depth. Which is about the way one feels about the whole book...
...Miss Gobbler's coming-out party. Accompanied by Hiram F. Mills of Norwell, she took her place in the receiving line wearing one of fashion's most startling creations...
...Meanwhile, "Jim," famed gobbler from the President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after...
...Moines, a small but red-eyed turkey gobbler was mated with a large chicken. Eggs were laid, hatched, and a barnyard hybrid stepped forth which the breeder, one Roy Beck, called a turken. "Its meat combines the delicacy of chicken with the flavor of turkey." "Turkens will bring 70c to 80c a pound next November," said Breeder Beck...
...Whereupon Jeff colored up like a turkey gobbler, and, breaking away from the crowd, bolted into the gymnasium building and dashed downstairs to the locker room, while the rest of the joyous, grinning players streamed down the stairs after him, laughing and joking at his consternation...