Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excelsior last week voluntarily took this view, announced it would suppress all news of crime. Good Mexicans thought this action well befitted the daily whose circulation (61.500) and influence are the largest in the land. Well pleased was Editor Manuel L. Barragan to be able to reprint a feather for Excelsior's sombrero, a letter from President Ortiz Rubio, concluding: ". . . It would be desirable if all of Mexico's press would second the noble effort of Excelsior...
...four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston as Dartmouth Carnival Queen and the prettiest girl there?a title that was another feather in the cap of smart junior and Phi Gamma Pitkin, who had asked her up. There was some roughhousing on the ice called a moccasin dance, discreeter dances indoors; skating, tobogganing, skiing went on next morning, but the most interesting event was the slalom race. Down from the top of Balch...
...Nelson Perkins (1891), U. S. alternate at the Paris Reparations Conference (1929); Seymour Parker Gilbert (LL. B., 1915), Agent General for Reparation Payments (since 1924); Jeremiah Smith Jr. (1892), League of Nations Commissioner General for Hungary (1924-26) in charge of its financial reconstruction. Last week was added another feather in Harvard's economic cap: Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, Harvard graduate (1894), Converse professor of banking and finance, sailed quietly abroad to confer with Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. Expected upshot of the visit: Professor Sprague may become the liaison officer between the Bank...
...certain U. S. poultry spent the week in special quarters and an almost continuous state of excitement at the 41st Consecutive Madison Square Garden Poultry Show, Inc. Plymouth Rocks, Minorcas, Wyandottes, Pouters, Muscovy ducks, Bourbon Reds-8,000 birds of fine feather, they heard the remarks of fanciers who pointed fingers at them saying, "Look at that back. . . . Ain't she got style, though!" They were fed from little bowls containing mash. No lights disturbed them in the early morning; their coops were curtained to keep out draughts...