Word: buzzard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Down Goods instead of Tie-Them-Down and King Solomon's Marrow instead of King Solomon's Wisdom Stone. He also had some additional merchandise: Boss Fix Powders (to keep employers well disposed) Guffer (or Goof-er) Dust, Happy Dust, Easy Life Powder and Buzzard Nest...
...ever so softly annihilates Christian idiocies. Her weapons are neither rapiers nor bludgeons. They are satin sofa-pillows which she tosses laughingly but with accuracy. Breaking when they land, her missiles leave the recipient white and ridiculous with feathers. In prose as easygoing, as smooth and level as a buzzard's flight, she matches her astute intelligence with a fancy as varied as it is engaging...
...beforehand, choose to rely. It need hardly be pointed out that these institutions stand in direct opposition to the University in their ideals of education, if that term can be used for the objects which they foster. The tutoring school is a caricature of modern education, a pedagogical buzzard hovering on the outskirts of an institution of learning. And when it chooses to prey upon men preparing for divisional examinations, of all things, the incongruity is almost laughable...
...Buzzard Nest...
Orville Wright, unimpressed by the chauvinistic claims made for this patriarchal buzzard brought forward some weeks ago, certain criticisms of the label (TIME, May 11). Its statement was true, he declared, except for the fact that the Langley plane had never been capable of rising from the ground for longer than five seconds...