Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feather in our cap, something we've needed a long time,'" City Councilor Saundra Graham agreed...
...earnings of the whole store. The basic design has not changed in 21 years. "I keep thinking that one day it will look old-fashioned and passe," says Stutz, "but it doesn't." Customers there receive close but not suffocating attention from modish salespeople as they buy pheasant feather necklaces for $270 or silvery snakeskin-covered appointment books for $150. Actress Cicely Tyson, a regular customer, reportedly buys all her furs from Bendel's second-floor salon; and two years ago, former Beatle John Lennon grabbed up $10,000 worth of Christmas goodies for friends at the store...
...feather in our cap, something we've needed a long time,'" City Councilor Saundra Graham agreed...
...greeted a bemused bystander with a blue balloon and a smacking kiss on the cheek. Another clown in a striped T shirt and psychedelic wig paused from time to time to give lawnmowers, car windshields, even a motorcycle policeman's helmet a few flicks with his bright red feather duster. Along the way, the clowns stopped off at two hospitals, a mental institution and a nursing home, where they dispensed balloons and hugs to sad-eyed children and old people...
...feather soon fluttered across the President's desk. Justice Department documents indicated that Billy had claimed that Jimmy had shown him State Department cables about his 1978 trip to Libya, saying that he had been a fine good-will ambassador. After an embarrassingly vague White House statement claiming that "the President does not now recall" whether he had shown the cables to Billy, Press Secretary Jody Powell jubilantly passed around copies of the papers, which turned out to be harmless. In fact, they had been given to Columnist Jack Anderson 14 months ago in response to a suit brought...