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Realizing for the first time the dire possibility of air raids on their country, the U.S. people acted like hens in a barnyard at the rumble of a sudden summer storm. Some were apathetic and carefree, some panic-stricken, many more earnest and eager to be helpful. Everywhere was a great cackling. Little hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, head of the Office of Civilian Defense, glared out over a U.S. that was mostly confused and unprepared...
...paving granite from their quarry fell off. Since chickens have no teeth, they masticate their food in their gizzards, with the help of pebbles they swallow while feeding. The Davidsons claim that their grit is ideal because it contains sparkling particles of feldspar and mica which attract a hungry hen...
...jovial White House press conference he endorsed hen-shaped little Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republican candidate for a third term as Mayor of New York City...
...Peak Egg, an egg substitute, the London Daily Mirror's acidulous Columnist Cassandra wrote: "No hen ever laid egg or eyes on Peak Egg. . . . Take eight ounces of ordinary flour and two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, add a little dye and just a trace of gum. Mix well . . . relax and wait for the great unending public of British suckers...
Harry Brown's delightful "The Brief, Unfinished History of John Cudlow" stands out as a fantasy of the professional magazines to which its author regularly contributes. The account of what happens to hen-pecked Mr. Cudlow when he begins to lay a large golden egg every morning lives up to its highest potentialities. The legendary goose had nothing on our John Cudlow...