Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have felt," said he, "that one of the reasons why the millinery business has not kept pace is that since the war we have had nothing as radical as the Empress Eugenie silhouette,* which made every existing fashion as dead as the dodo...
...last week, Sculptor John had finished two strong, roughly molded character studies done with the same sure hand as his best canvases. One shows his wife, "Dodo," gentle and clear-browed in golden bronze; the other is a salute to Ireland's famed poet, William Butler Yeats slit-eyed chin thrust inquisitively forward. Now John is happily working on a third, head of his daughter Vivien, which is still in the shape where the tobacco tins he thriftily uses as filler are not yet covered over...
John was so interested in her work that he almost ruined her next sculpture, a bust of his wife. Every few minutes he would stomp in, watch a while, then grumble "I've done 50 portraits of Dodo. I know how she looks, don't I? She has a flat place here. And he would punch his thumb into the clay. Says Fiore: "I couldn't keep him away." Finally she brought down a set of tools for the old painter, and he has been sculpturing ever since...
...once an ancient louse moved in, finding the feathers and skin debris a convenient source of food. As the early birds evolved into separate species, their lice evolved too, adapting themselves cleverly to each change in their hosts. Penguins have their lice; so do skylarks and ostriches. The extinct dodo and giant moa were undoubtedly lousy...
...told [by Senator Taft that] it is very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist . . . that all isolationists are extinct, that they are just as dead as the dodo. But there is a new species on the horizon and this new species I call the 're-examinist,' because the re-examinist says, 'I want to re-examine all our policies...