Word: feathering
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...hear you are at Harvard for a year. You certainly know how to feather your nest, and I'm happy for you. But what I'm curious about is this: Are you learning anything practical up there in Cambridge or is it just a mess of theory which will look good in your record at promotion time...
Temple, but tap-dancing never interested Maria. At six, she was up on her toes, dancing to The Stars & Stripes Forever. Soon after, swathed in her mother's remodeled peach satin and ostrich feather negligée, she made a solo debut as the Glow Worm. Unlike a lot of other dancing moppets who never get beyond the Glow Worm stage, Maria and her younger sister Marjorie (now a principal dancer in the Marques de Cuevas Grand Ballet) stuck to their toe shoes...
Livingston Hall, vice-Dean of the Law School and chairman of the Harvard Unit of the Red Feather Campaign, announced yesterday that the University raised $39,315 in the 1951 drive, a 14 percent increase over last year. The contributions came to 86.5 percent of the quota, which the Boston headquarters had increased about $11,000 over the 1950 goal...
...first. Last week a Manhattan gallery put the results of Vertès' latest notion on show: 20 portraits of famous people painted as Vertes imagines they must have looked in childhood. Most of them pretty and all more or less penetrating, the portraits were done with a feather-light virtuoso touch reminiscent of Manet. The drawing was sketchy but never scratchy, the colors pastel but never pasty...
...CRIMSON can well understand how Dean Hall, as Harvard chairman of the drive, had hoped that more publicity would be given the Red Feather; but the CRIMSON could never publicize one charity from the Combined Charities Committee's list of eight more than any of the other seven. It might be legitimate to criticize the CRIMSON for not giving even more publicity than it did to the drive as a whole. It is certainly not legitimate to attack any newspaper for failure to pick out Dean Hall's favorite charity and publicize it more than the others. The CRIMSON agrees...