Word: henly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minneapolis, one Mrs. Betty Smilow prepared a hen for stewing, found in the gizzard three emeralds, four 22-caliber empty cartridge shells...
...course, like the old discussion of the hen and the egg, it might be debated whether the American comic moulded American life or American life expressed itself through the comic. Actually, however, the comic has developed into an organ of social satire, an ogre which sees, as Mencken says of women, "with bright and horrible eyes" all of the weaknesses and vices of men and broadcasts this knowledge to the world. The "funnies" are terribly realistic, destructive, usually pessimistic criticisms of everything although the most popular subjects are domestic life, business and personal adventure. But the delight of ridiculing...
Lanky Havers, "nervous as a hen," missed easy puts. Genial, confident Sarazen drove almost as far as the hard-hitting Briton, knocked out six birdies in the last day's play...
...like Lloyd George, Clemencean, and the Kaiser cannot get along without wars any more than a hen can get along without laying eggs," Syud Hossain, Indian journalist and descendant of the prophet Mohammed, told the Liberal Club yesterday in his speech on "Eastern and Western Ideals." "The war-maker cannot make peace...
...Cocks or hens to order may be the daily program of the poultry yard a few years hence, if experiments by Dr. F. A. E. Crew, director of the biological research laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, reported at the Liverpool meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Sept. 24) fulfill his expectations. Dr. Crew took a pure-bred buff Orpington hen which had already laid eggs, and by an artificial glandular process little understood, changed its sex. At least, the comb, wattles and spurs grew, the bird crowed instead of cackled, paid attention to other...