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Morley: Her hand flying merrily over the keys like a white hen picking up corn...
...vault. Inside it reposed the famed Jonker diamond, world's largest uncut gem and the largest privately owned diamond anywhere. Discovered by a South African farmer named Jonker last year (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934), the stone weighs 726 carats (about five ounces), is bigger than a hen...
...pleased by the tulips from an unknown lady than by the birth of one more little Ramage; to the middle-aged carpenter's wife whose baby, after an agonizing labor, was born dead (it would have had no silver rattle in any case); to rich, ugly Dorothy, whose hen brain mercifully was unable to tell her how miserable she was; to the Junoesque showgirl who had capped her career by marrying a faithful goose and finding him such a swan that she proudly concurred in naming their first-born "Shakespeare"; to aging Aunt Juliette, the Edwardian grande dame, wondering...
...this way," a droll Sylt salt observed. "We've got a bird sanctuary all right and the birds are laying fine. Some of them lay long-range cannon behind the sand dunes. Others have only laid gun emplacements. One old hen, I noticed, laid a small gunpowder factory...
...squirted water on a sleeper's neck; rat exterminator which snapped a collar with bell attached on the rat; electrocuter of bedbugs; eyeglasses for chickens to keep them from being pecked by other chickens; small round-pointed drill to produce dimples; egg-marker to be attached to the hen; automatic hat-tipper, to work which the user needs only to bow his head; combined rocking-chair and churn...