Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio was a junk shop crammed with knickknacks and props: a stuffed horse without a head, sets of bagpipes which he played screechingly, old costumes strung on clotheslines across the room. Like other lonely men, he kept animals, among them a crow with a broken leg for which he fashioned a wooden one. He liked dashing clothes-rakish caps and velveteen jackets-but he never carried a suitcase on trips, instead wore his extra shirts one on top of the other, the collars crammed into his pockets. He smoked stubby black pipes, insisted on apple tart for breakfast, favored charred...
Last week all but Lait & Mortimer agreed to a crow-eating settlement with Neiman-Marcus. It called for 1) letters of apology to every one of the store's 1,500 employees, 2) a guarantee that the offending paragraphs will not be printed in future copies of the book, 3) a cash settlement with the store, 4) a half-page apology "to the highly regarded Neiman-Marcus store and its employees" paid for by the defendants and printed this week as an ad in seven big-city dailies...
...brought the sophomore smoker, the outing of the scare that a hotel would be built on Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, and William Jennings Bryan to speak on "democracy." On the eleventh, 2,000 avid crow fans waited until 3 p.m. to se Harvard got off to a fast start against Penn, M.I.T., and Cornell in the Quadrangular Regatta, rough water had postponed the race for three hours. The Cantab and Penn Crew soon left the others far behind. Matching stroke for stroke they swept down the Charles, but Harvard took advantage of a snapped oarlock in the Quaker shell...
North Carolinians, who sometimes call their state "a valley of humiliation between two mountains of conceit," last week had something to crow about. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which ordinarily renews the certificates of "feeder" airlines for only three years, broke precedent by issuing a seven-year renewal to North Carolina's tiny but fast-growing Piedmont Airlines. In addition, CAB awarded Piedmont four new routes, and gave Piedmont a public pat on the back for its "outstanding record...
...Hsueh Hsi, Brainwasher Ai hurriedly ate crow: "I Bailed to grasp the problem . . . My mistaken views were the result of my failure to undertake class analysis . . ." Ai's 10,000-word apology was eloquent, but it was too late to save him from severe reprimand in the next issue of his own magazine: "Certain comrades have been imbued with strong dogmatism and party jargon . . . Many articles have been characterized by emptiness and bluffing...