Word: feathering
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...endorsing reclamation and irrigation, belaboring each other over the Communist issue, posing for pictures without number. They agreed to a full-dress debate this week. In Pendleton, Dewey got a ten-gallon hat and talked to Chief Sunset on the Mountain. In The Dalles, Dewey posed in a regulation feather headdress, last worn by Rumania's Queen Marie on a visit in the '20s. At the same town the next day, Stassen shook hands with Chief Tommy Thompson, but balked at donning his war bonnet...
...years ago when the Boston Symphony recorded "stars and Stripes Forover" and did a creditable job but might better have left such undertakings to the Harvard Band. To do long-hair (and that portion of the program was not limited to Bach) in such fine style, however, is a feather in the car of any military band. Perhaps the best of these "straight" numbers was the Suite in E Flat for Military Band, by Gustav Holst, which was played with finesse and showed off to best advantage the Band's excellent brass sonority, as well as the adeptness...
...home with it that he gets additional laughs out of the predatory rustics and even out of the avid gestures of a steam shovel. Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot...
...Ends of the Earth" could not be a more appropriate title. Inspector Dick Powell starts off in hot pursuit of a narcotics ring, gets shot at and clubbed on the head at every turn, and winds up victorious a week later with a feather in his hat and a lamp on his noggin, having completely encircled the globe. In Shanghai, Powell crosses paths with Signe Hasso, in company with a young Chinese girl who later turns out to be older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb...
...process was comparatively painless for the team, which begins to shape up now as a threat in the Eastern League struggle. Ted Norris added another feather to his well-plumed cap by cracking the Annapolis pool record for the 440, as he led teammate Larry Miner home in 4:54.5, nine-tenths of a second under the old record...