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Which is to say the difference between a man and a hen. . . . Pep is something that makes a man straighten up, throw out his chest, stick out his chin, and do things. ... It brightens his wits. It sharpens his tongue. It creates sunshine all around...
...come to parallel that of the Londonderrys. Fortnight ago Viscount Snowden revealed in his tart autobiography (TIME, Nov. 5) the Prime Minister's humorous admission that because of his metamorphosis "every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me." In what a Canadian paper promptly called the hen-run of British society dowagers the Marchioness of Londonderry is undisputed No. 1 hen to Scot MacDonald's chaste Chanticleer...
...Empire editorial reaction was a dressing-down which the dyspeptic Viscount received from Ottawa's sturdy Evening Citizen: "He [Snowden] is on record as having kowtowed as Chancellor to the Lords of 'sound' money just as much as Ramsay MacDonald has been Chanticleer in the hen-run of society dowagers. The Prime Minister's chaste cheek may have been impressed with various flavors of London society's lipstick, but Comrade Snowden is in the House of Lords because he kissed the seats of London's international moneylenders...
...Fatigue Laboratory of the Business School, the experimenters have on hand 16 gila monsters, three dogs, two cats, five rabbits and a hen...
...just as easy to buy a carload of butter (19,200 lb.) as a carload of eggs (12,000 doz.), yet amateur speculators almost always prefer eggs. They know that when hens are not well fed in the great egg districts of the Midwest they seldom lay eggs. And even a well-fed hen dislikes to lay eggs in very hot weather. What most amateur speculators do not know is that the leading trading medium is October eggs, which were all laid in March, April and May?before the drought seriously affected production. There are 9,000,000 cases...