Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would mean, ipso facto, to Mr. Nash that of brains by weight and volume Mr. Milquetoast has no more than a feather...
...booth at a London Fair, Queen Mary saw a jigsaw puzzle, tried to put it together, failed, bought it. Next day she made more news by wearing a feather-decked hat instead of her customary high toque...
...hall men and women in full evening dress made no attempt to control their laughter. Dignified gentlemen sat with handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths and tears of mirth streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak's Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience...
...Jugoslavia stood as long as she could the sight of her son King Peter standing bareheaded in the rain, perhaps catching his death of cold. When she could stand it no longer Her Majesty motioned His Majesty to put on his cap, a handsome Sokol cap with a feather...
...violent, obscure but famed Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, he did not expect it to land on a best-seller list. Acclaimed by many a critic and fellow-writer as foremost living U. S. poet, Pound is little conned by plain readers. But Publisher Farrar rightly considers him a feather in his cap, continues to publish him in the face of little comprehension, no popular applause...