Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, one Walter Lang was arrested because he stood so long watching a roost of pigeons belonging to a local fancier. He pleaded: "I'm just a hunchback. I never did anything wrong." Turning to show his hump, he dislodged one of the fancier's pigeons concealed under his coat. Walter Lang went to jail for 30 days...
...Leopoldine ("Polly"), 1916 debutante; named for her grandfather, Jewish Conductor Leopold Damrosch, founder of the New York Symphony; pianist, dog fancier...
Once prominent in Bangkok's fish fighting halls. Wat Chant Aiur Bopiter was brought to the U. S. aboard the Cook's-touring S. S. Franconia, is now destined for a life of retirement in a Manhattan fish-fancier's private aquarium...
...splendors approach perfection, it is better to stay home and read the plays. The other insists that the great Shakespearean characters were meant to be seen and heard, that anyone who resists their appearance in the flesh, even though that flesh be pocked with imperfections, can be no true fancier of the drama...
When the boomerang hurled by Earl Russell came hurtling back from India at his head, what could the poor dog fancier say? He could not prove that he had not uttered the quoted words. His speech had never existed on paper. Nobody had made a movietone of it-such as the one which caught Chief Justice William Howard Taft's error when administering the Presidential Oath to Herbert Clark Hoover (TIME, March 25). All that flustered Earl Russell could do was to beg newspaper reporters for their notes. These proved, like all human testimony, to be conflicting. But finally...