Word: roosters
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...expedition leaders, one appreciates their matter of fact style, even if one misses highly reflective and imaginative writing. They describe dangerous rapid-shooting and unruly pony caravans in terse language. Consequently, such light touches as the doctor's delight in finding a native with a rare skin disease, the rooster imitating a missionary who disturbed the natives, and the pet gibbon who juggled a Tang Dynasty plate without smashing it come as high spots in the story...
Josephus Daniels began a private campaign to change the Democratic party emblem by printing a crowing rooster on the front page of his Raleigh. N. C. News and Observer. Observed he: "The rooster has ten times more style and beauty and clarion call than the donkey...
...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...
...enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there was a box full of diamond brooches in the shapes of cow, crescent, rooster, grasshopper, wild duck, beetle, bee, donkey, horse & cab, the U. S. flag, lizard...
...garden and a sow, A smokehouse and a cow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster And you'll have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank...