Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other reductions were on cigaret paper, corsets, canned mushrooms, lace, perfumes, vanilla beans, feather dusters, candied chestnuts, Roquefort cheese, jewelry. Last year $4,270 of the $4,275 worth of maraschino cherries imported by the U. S. came from France. On these Secretary Hull sliced the duty...
...FEATHER CLOAK MURDERS-Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet-Crime Club ($2). Brave Baron von Kaz (The Ticking Terror Murders) reappears on U. S. territory to unscramble a murderous mess in the Hawaiian Islands. Out of the Baron's prowlings, tantrums, and passion for the beauteous Caryl, Authors Teilhet concoct a tale whose underpinnings are stouter than the average thriller...
...songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto a piano, coyly croon I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze, the hit from Collegiate, for which Gordon and Revel wrote the score...
Oxford and Cambridge have for centuries employed the doctrine regarding this problem, that "birds of a feather flock together", and there is no reason to believe that the expression would not fit Harvard conditions equally will. Specifically, men should be permitted as far as possible to live in the House of their choice. Groups applying together for admission should be permitted several perfectly frank consultations with the House Master or Senior Tutor. Facts and figures should not be withheld from the student, as it is his privilege to know what he is going...
Also shown are twelve "kahilis", or feather decorated poles, which were traditionally stuck in the ground as a mark of royalty...