Word: hens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thyroid route to slimness was all right for Diego Rivera who had a doctor watching him like a mother hen. But it is a risky business, just as unsupervised dieting is risky. Obesity is not a simple condition always due to gluttony or laziness. Endocrine glands may be out of order. A poor thyroid may not keep metabolism spurred. Poor sexual apparatus causes a peculiar pudginess and a warped pituitary gland an odd flabbiness. Dieting and/or exercise unaided by doctoring cannot put those glands back in kilter...
...Enid, Okla.. H. Young found five of his hens gone, a letter addressed to Lewis Burdick lying in the poultry-pen. He tok! officers that one of the missing hens would fall over in a fit if someone said "Shoo!" The officers went to Lewis Burdick's poultry-pen, said "Shoo!"' A hen fell over in a fit. Burdick was arrested...
...said. "At first I was inclined to take it for a joke and I remember making some crack about guessing the shock of the Giants' winning a ball game being too much." Manager Terry fled to the middle of a square outside the hotel, surrounded, like a hen with chicks, by the whole Giant team. At length Trainer Willie Schafer was prevailed upon to go back into the hotel and get the players' overcoats. Trainer Schafer's earthquake experience was trying. He was taking a shower at the ball park when the first shock hit. The next...
...ardently. These birds, which he believes to be a rare species rather than a mutation, have all the characteristics of plain bob white but their plumage is a dark reddish brown, solid except for, on some specimens, one round white spot on the breast. From three cocks and a hen trapped five years ago Mr. Ames has raised and released several hundred bred true to the new type. Though they do not seem to thrive when shipped elsewhere, on the Ames place they are fine strong birds, flashing deep cherry red in the sunlight when a covey bursts away...
...Again" should do; it appears at the proper times and with the proper attitude to become the victims of the egotism of Mr. Perkins, and the suavity of his mistress and secretary, Miss Bates. But the one-sided encounter must have a turning point, and that comes when the hen-pecked Middle Western husband overcomes the "savoin-faire" of Miss Bates by calmly waiting all day with her for Mr. Perkins in the latter's hotel suite; the result is that Mr. Perkins is almost forced, upon his return, to reliquish his condition of single blessedness in order that...