Word: rooster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some $1,500,000 over the counter to dream-chasing U. S. dope fiends...
...Convention, last December in Washington, persons who visited the various headquarters were struck by the easy cheerfulness of Kansas City's representatives, in contrast to Detroit's anxious gogetters, Cleveland's cautious calculators, San Francisco's determined loudspeakers, Chicago's rooster-boosters. For a small city, Kansas City has extraordinary savoir-faire, and much more civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens got together last winter and made the plans. Flower-growing...
Charles Michael Schwab, steelman, funnyman, was chief speaker at a luncheon of the Pennsylvania Society in Manhattan. He talked about the comparative beauty of man and woman, drew his conclusion from the animal kingdom: "The rooster, the male, is more beautiful than the female of fowls. The rooster has more plumage, a more stately carriage. The same is true of other animals and it should be true of men. It's time we men were admired for our manly beauty, but I'm not going to advocate it now and and here. There are too many ladies present...
Last week, Detroiters introduced another new model. It had no balloon tires, no windshield, no horn. It was a mayor not a motor. It was Mayor John Christian Lodge who won office without benefit of one campaign speech, one political promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names...
...Stamford, Conn., a large, stupid rooster saw a pile of fermented mash on the side of the road. After pecking and swallowing a large quantity of this mash the rooster fell over in the gutter, drunk. A motorist, thinking him dead, picked up the rooster and carried him home. Inside the house, the rooster's owner looked at the bird with disgust. "He's always getting like that," she said. The rooster winked one red eye, croaked, fell fast asleep...