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...Atlanta, one Walter Dorsey, Negro chicken thief, explained his technique to the judge: "I just sprays 'em with chloroform. Then stand back and wait. In about five minutes they flop off the roost and are ready for my sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tail | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Americanism;" "The Moral Leper;" "The Devil's Boomerang" (for men only); "Chickens Come Home to Roost" (for men only); "What Shall the End Be?;" "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack" (anti-evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...best of 'em go by in silence." Just then he became aware of violent horn tooting, and blowing his whistle released the jam which had developed during the conversation. Amid stately sweeps of the hand the cars sped past leaving the isolated bluecoat marooned on his roost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantabridgian Bluecoat Marooned on Elevated Roost in Sea of Traffic in Square--"Capsule of Law" is Indifferent | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

...form. Ever since the days when Cotton Mather sent two wives to heaven with his Frendian nagging, Boston, whether she'd admit it or not, has been a matriarchy, up to the very beginning of the present Irish era; and now maybe it's Mother Machree who rules the roost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/17/1926 | See Source »

...which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain objects (which had sunk) to rise again. One or the other must be found. The ships, the planes, and the 18 destroyers, continued searching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shenandoah | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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