Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birds of a feather will all flock together at this year's first meeting of the Harvard Ornithology Club in the Upper Common Room of Adams House on Friday evening, October 4, at 7.30 o'clock. Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, will show moving pictures of birds which he took with his own peculiar telephoto arrangement...
...Blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Lily Greatbatch, the woman who plucked a feather from the tail of a Whipsnade ostrich, beamed cheerfully at me today when I asked her why she did it. Her offense had cost her a £1 fine and 10s. costs at Leighton Buzzard, Beds, earlier...
...look of the bird there were several others who had obeyed that impulse. I saw another woman pluck one before I did. Mine was only half a feather and it cost me 30s., but it was worth...
More than 8,000 Iowans praised the performance, drove away humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
...headlines for weeks and needed fresh publicity to re-establish his nuisance value with the Administration. If his lone filibuster against NRA should somehow succeed-and perhaps other Senators who hated the President as much as he did would come to his aid-he could stick a Blue Eagle feather in his hat and call it macaroni or a great personal victory over the New Deal. Besides, throngs of visiting Shriners in the galleries made it a fine afternoon for speechmaking. So, making a parliamentary motion to get the floor...