Word: pullets
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Local haberdashers set wavering odds from 2 to 23 in favor of the pullet pulitzers, depending on the availability of antique fireballer R. Sibley (The Cat) Ludendorff, currently nursing a soggy-salary wing on the eve of the morning after...
...their reaction to the elimination of vests in spring suits. A shutdown on private radio sets was expected within 90 days. On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel...
...business of hatching baby chicks has become such a fine art that it is now possible for hatcherymen to ship their customers broods made up either of all-pullet chicks or all-cockerel chicks. Formerly, the poultry raiser had to take pot luck with his chicks, which were usually divided 50-50 as to sex by Mother Nature...
...demonstrate the efficacy of Sears Roebuck's best chicken feed, Sears-Roebuck's Lancaster, Pa. Manager Mark Wayne Ansbach last spring popped a Plymouth Rock pullet named Priscilla into a big glass jar, placed the jar in his store window. Priscilla thrived on her mail-order diet, soon grew so large that she could not be removed from the jar. The S. P. C. A. arrested Mr. Ansbach, got him fined $10. He appealed...
...eleven when, in 1924, she won her first championship for figure skating. She did not skate in the earnest way of most young girls, and when turning an outside left with her arms out she did not look like a pullet. On the lakes at St. Moritz, and the rink at Budapest, in London, Stockholm, she was wildly applauded. She gave a command performance for the Queen of Norway, and afterward the Queen wrote to her brother George V in England and asked him to see Sonja when she was in London. King George did as he was asked...