Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years John M. Hill, warden of the Westchester County Jail at White Plains, kept a white-feathered Japanese silky rooster, a long-tailed fowl with a bluish skin, rare in the U. S. (current value $100). The rooster's name was Murphy. He disliked women, would peck at their legs, would win poultry show prizes...
...determined to buy out his partner, never see him again. Then things began to happen to Notterdam. . . . When not quite sober he had been persuaded to sign a long-term contract with an obscure author. He repudiated the contract. The author, who was starving, killed himself. Notterdam had a peck of trouble hushing up the story, was first helped, then hindered by the author's disreputable wife. Notterdam was in love with his secretary, Henrietta Felise, and it was mutual, but when he found his wife had been for years in love with Kratch it seemed to complicate...
After seeing her in High Society Blues, Janet Gaynor's husband, Lydell Peck, San Francisco lawyer, advised her to accept no more such roles, told her the best way to make the Fox company feel her value was to leave them for a while. Though rumored to be quarreling with Peck, Janet Gaynor quarreled with Fox. She and her mother got on a boat for Honolulu. On the boat by accident she met Farrell, whom the public believed to have been Husband Peck's rival before her marriage. Afraid of scandal, Farrell took his bags...
...Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within a half-inch of the Congressman's nose and exclaimed: "Sit down or he'll peck...
Westminster's trustees took the occasion to choose a school president. They chose Dr. Frank Herbert Stevenson, 47, able tract-writing minister of Cincinnati's Church of the Covenant. Twenty-one years ago he was missionary to the Indians on the Fort Peck Reservation at La Plata, Mont. Before that he was working for telephone and electric light concerns on the Pacific Coast. He was ordained in 1911. In seminary, work he is president of the board of trustees of Lane Theological at Cincinnati, and was, before the Princeton schism, a member of Princeton Theological's directorate...