Word: hens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texarkana, Tex., in 1912, Charles Settle's Leghorn hen laid torpedo-shaped eggs that tapered at both ends. On the basis of that hint he went on record as predicting a world war in two years. Last week one of Settle's Minorca hens laid torpedo-shaped eggs. Said Farmer Settle: "If another war doesn't break out within two years then my hen doesn't know her business...
...embarrassed officials stated that they will have nothing to say about disposition of the bequest until "further investigations, consultations, etc. are completed." Wags compared the University to a proud but modest hen, couched on a whole nestful of golden eggs, firmly discouraging the query: "How come...
...love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...
WHEN the Varsity polo team made its Chicago debut last weekend it was to defeat the Fort Sheridan riders 6-5 1/2 in a game which was touch-and-go until the final whistle. Before a crowd of 11,000 spectators the Harvard trio, Towny Winmill, Hen Gerry, and Captain Tommy Davis demonstrated that they had the winning combination...
...something that sends shivers down the back and saps all the energy in the body. Did you ever see a hen with pip? Her wings are drooped, her feathers ruffled, her head hangs down . . . her cackle is gone, her eyes are watery. . . . She is sick all over...