Word: kiwi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were many peculiar and eccentric birds upon display. One, a featherless, wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry show and in their total inability to do so hung in anxious frenzy over prisons in which specimens of canaries whistled their shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food...