Word: roosters
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...people admiring the Kuehne landscapes inside the Kuehne frames last week , Artist Kuehne suddenly exhibited a carved and gilded rooster, a portrait head, remarked: "I also do sculpture...
Traffic halted on Fifth Avenue, sleepy heads appeared from swank hotel windows as the peacock soared thrice around the gilded rooster atop the Heckscher Building, then to a window ledge on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Plaza. There, as raucous cries arose from the Central Park Bird Sanctuary, he took off again, landing finally in the sanctuary beside four squawking peahens which had been widowed fortnight before...
...President Roosevelt, Candidate Chandler's campaign platform-economy, no State sales tax-differed not at all from that of his Republican opponent, austere Judge King Swope. But loud, toothy, red-headed "Happy" Chandler, onetime newsboy, jazz bandleader and football coach, got himself a sound truck with a live rooster for a radiator emblem, put on a Huey Longish campaign such as Kentuckians had not enjoyed for years. Result: a 95,000 majority for Chandler...
Less successful impresarios often refer to "Gallo luck." (His name means "Lucky Rooster.") But Gallo believes more in hard work and frugality. He pays his routine singers $85 per week, thus can afford to keep his seat prices low. Even at such wages the singers sing often. And if they complain of their schedules, Gallo can always remind them of the hours he has worked since he arrived in the U. S.. an immigrant of 17 who had lost all but 12? shooting craps in the steerage...
...wise man who lived in a tub and told an emporor to stand out of his light; there was a tale of a man who fell in a well while looking at the stars; and once upon a time there was a philosopher who plucked the feathers from a rooster and sent it to a teacher who had defined man as a featherless biped. And then there were lines which as a young lad the Vagabond was made to learn...