Word: turkey-cock
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Ranee stork, the turkey-cock...
...hurried to embrace his wife, it was apparent that he had grown old as well as famous in battle. His hair was white, his face lined. But he was still erect and turkey-cock as ever...
...town of 50,395 inhabitants. By all odds the fieriest spirit among them was Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, late lieutenant colonel of the Union Army. In his own words, he nourished "a tremendous and abiding faith in the future of Los Angeles"-and its climate. This bewhiskered turkey-cock boomed the town into a city, made money as it grew, built himself a fine home called "The Bivouac" and mounted his bellicose eagle on a building at First and Broadway studded with granite battlements and buttresses...
...entire New Testament, just revised; and the Herald (now Hearst's Herald Examiner) was established. Also in 1881, in the overgrown pueblo village of Los Angeles, was born the Los Angeles Times, which shortly was acquired by General Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, a goateed, long-mustached turkey-cock who loved a fight and was sometimes compared to Editors Jones of the New York Times and Greeley of the Tribune. With true Southern Californian fervor the Los Angeles Times this week was celebrating the soth anniversary of that birth...
...turkey-cock, who ruled the walk...
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