Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their eyes. Their minds are joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films...
...unseen thought from the far corners of the earth. The very winds will rattle to the messages of opposing plays, even as they now rattle to the cabalistic numerals of the quarterbacks on any Saturday afternoon. What incentive will be given to the young Edisons, with their apparatus of chicken wire and a clothes pole, to catch from out the flying night the latest returns from the great Sitka-South Africa championship contest, or to learn that Quito has captured the title of the world...
...Mignon," Thomas 3. Triumph March, "Imperator Julian," Urack 4. Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2, Liszt 5. Overture, "1812," Tschaikowsky (Organ, Mr. Marshall) 6. Rhapsody, "Espana," Chabrier 7. Ballet Music from "La Gioconda," Ponchielli 8. Waltz, "Fideles Wien," Komzak 9. Comical Quartets, Razek a. The Fly b. A Morning in the Chicken Yard. c. Cat's Sorenade. 10. Waltz, "The Beautiful Blue Danube," Strauss 11. Largo, Handel Violin, Mr. Hoffman; Harp, Mr. Holy; Organ, Mr. Marshall. 12. American Fantasy, Herbert Organ, Mr. Marshall...
...step--Everybody Loves a Chicken...