Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dished up in the United Kingdom last week, was the same as the traditional Christmas (or plum) pudding except that carrots were much used where the receipt called for certain fruit. There was no Blitzmas shortage of nourishing food but instead of "Christmas goose," turkey or other high-priced fowl* most people, including the armed forces, chomped cheap Empire beef or mutton on Dec. 25. Officers of about the rank of colonel, if at all prosperous themselves, generally treated their men to free beer...
...failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles, was still turning up at the Casino, ready to strut her pigeons if the Casino would pay her salary and the poachers would be kinder to her stock...
...World War I, a hunter bagged some pheasants which he wanted to keep for his Christmas dinner. As an accommodation, an ice-plant operator named J. A. Winchell plunked the birds into a water-filled milk can, froze them in a solid ice cake. On Christmas Day the frozen fowl came out of the ice cake fresh...
...save grains, whiskey production last week was decreased two-thirds, despite Britain's need for salable exports. To save mutton, macon-making has been stopped.* (One shilling ten pence a week may be spent on pork, beef or mutton per adult, fish and fowl excepted.) Not until 1918 was that necessary last time...
Primitivist Pippin paints mostly at night, still works months on each picture. He and his wife (who calls him "Pippin") live happily on his wound benefit and the washing she takes in, always have turkey for Christmas, goose for New Year's, guinea fowl for their birthdays. Says Horace Pippin: "My opinion of art is that a man . . . paints from his heart and mind. To me it seems impossible for another to teach...