Word: hens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down last week through dealers to lesser collectors was born in 1859 in Washington, D. C. Migrating to England as a youth, Henry Oppenheimer went into "the City.'' became a member of the Speyer Brothers' banking firm. A generous and kindly Jew whose friends called him "Hen Opp," prosperous Mr. Oppenheimer soon began to acquire majolica, medals, coins, intaglios, objects of antique Greek and Roman art. In 1912 "Hen Opp" laid the keel of his collection of Old Masters' sketches when he made an extensive purchase from the Heseltine collection. Cultivating the friendship of art experts...
Upon leaving Yale, President-Elect Ham need not feel entirely as though he were joining an academic hen party. Among administrators of big U. S. women's colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...
...this point one young cad dropped a, live hen from the gallery. Squawking hysterically, the bird flew around Lord Allenby's head...
Cried Laborite Arthur Greenwood: "The honorable Chancellor has balanced all his budgets either by defaulting in his payments to the United States or by robbing somebody's hen roost." To this, the best rejoinder Chancellor Chamberlain could think of was : "When the Labor Party was in power ... it received in reparations [from Germany] ?54,000,000 and paid the United States ?46,500,000. The National Government has received only ?800,000 in reparations, and paid the United States ?32,500,000." This seemed an excellent moment for moon-faced Winston Churchill to rise and call the Commons...
...astonished his friends by cracking open a normal-looking egg out of which fell a hollow cork out of which Mr. Smith took a note written to himself. To prepare the trick, Robert E. Phillips Jr., postgraduate student of poultry husbandry at Kansas State College, had busied himself anesthetizing hens, inserting in their egg ducts hollow corks containing notes to Mr. Smith. Finally a hen laid an egg with a cork...