Word: feathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny blob hanging in the northwestern sky for a few minutes after sundown. The other was the comet found two months ago by Leslie C. Peltier, famed amateur of Delphos, Ohio (TIME, June 7). Laymen who hunted out the Peltier object, hoping to see a big, bright feather similar to Halley's comet in 1910, were disappointed. Unless they had binoculars they saw nothing but a blur, no brighter than the dimmest member of the Big Dipper...
...close to $5,000. The King's signal flags will be draped in the taproom of an English inn; the 102-ft. solid pine mast is to be the flagpole of a country estate; and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brinton are taking home to South Africa two feather pillows upon which once lay the heads of King George & Queen Mary...
Showing his feather, Home Secretary Sir John Simon said: "I declare myself unwilling to see a single ship sunk, even in a successful battle, in the cause of Ethiopia...
Next day Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George roused a Derbyshire audience by roaring: "I have seen the white feather embroidered across the Union Jack! I am one of many millions in this land who are humiliated by the spectacle...
...Canada which evoked a frightful roar from U. S. producers (TIME, Nov. 25), the French treaty caused almost no stir at all. Few of the U. S. products on which France lowered the duty have serious competition from French agriculture and industry. U. S. producers of brandy, wines, perfumes, feather dusters and the like were not politically potent enough to make their small squawks heard in Washington. Last week both the U. S. and French publics seemed decidedly ready to exchange champagne for automobiles, Roquefort cheese for fountain pens...