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Word: henly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Sow into Cow | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Penny 2? Hen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Sow into Cow | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...most dangerous enemy-the weaving spider of the Escurial. Both were masters of dissimulation and lovers of delay; but the leaden foot of Philip was the symptom of a dying organism, while Elizabeth temporized for the contrary reason-because vitality can afford to wait. The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings. She sat still; but every feather bristled; she was tremendously alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Hen, Great Snake | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...white hen of Puyallup, Wash., laid 330 eggs in 365 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...hen will scuttle back and forth on the shore, cackle and screech and flap her wings, but that's the ineffective best she can do for an incongruous brood gliding serenely off to midpond. Mr. Meadows was a very nice old hen, his scuttlings were well-bred, his cacklings mellifluous. In a charming London house he brought up his daughters and entertained their friends. But when his dependable older daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scuttling Hen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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