Word: henly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years), Harvard senior, aroused curiosity, interest, alarm, dismay, by roosting his exaggerated frame upon a stool in a lunch room and gulping down two, four, half a dozen, a dozen, two dozen, three dozen, three dozen and one, and five, and ten-four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected a bet ($10) and the price of his orgy, paid the pop-eyed waitress, stalked through the crowd and made...
...Pearl goes on to produce evidence of different kinds on the factors which control population, showing: 1) that for some unknown reason, perhaps psychological, fertility decreases as the size of a group increases (for example a group of 50 hens in a pen will lay more eggs per hen than a group of 100 hens) ; 2) that, as if well known, wealth reduces the birth rate; 3) that poverty and hard conditions of life tend to increase reproductive activity. In this connection he produces statistics of the sex activity of some 250 married men at various ages. At all periods...
...Dyle lived on Jezebel's earnings, augmenting them occasionally by borrowing a neighbor's hen, until one day she mistakenly guessed he was untrue and reported him to the police for thieving. While he was in jail she entered into holy wedlock with a rumshop keeper from Jamaica and sailed away with her husband. Released at last Dyle joined the Zouaves and shortly he too was transferred to Jamaica. There he cut a sumptuous figure. He was the best man in Port Royal and in much demand at weddings. He was a most successful gambler...
...wastrel hookers did more than they were paid for. Having hooked a feather into the tail of a famed French lawyer, one of them capered at his side, shouting: "Ya been in a henhouse, ya been in a hen-house." The barrister, embarrassed perhaps by a guilty conscience, pretended to share their mirth...
...store. Eli, turned carpenter, could pore over his Scriptures late evenings and during the long strikes, still tracking down the far-to-seek revelation of his God. The Lord blessed such piety with a solemn little son, Reuben, content to, learn his catechisms and caress Miriam, his kosher white hen...