Word: feathering
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...Deft little touches like the author's prologue, brilliantly done by David Mayer '42, combine with acting, directing, and staging to produce an atmosphere and a play that is worthy of as much enthusiasm as that of Lorca's villagers, when they gather 'round to hear the scarlet-caped, feather-capped story-teller...
...your feather for the game, and, if you're lucky, see the same With bright blue feathers for the game (and oh, so near to Vassar) And while they're looking for the ball the leader, though he's very small And no one else can sing at all, will sing a song for Vassar...
Resemblance to U.S. art ended in one group which turned out to be the hit of the show; eleven primitive charcoal and clay drawings on eucalyptus bark, done, not by Australia's high-brow artists, but by the paint-and-feather-clad, boomerang-throwing natives of the Australian bush. Showing animals, hunting scenes and spirits, these queer, childlike pictures were as unrealistic and imaginative as the screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit...
...more on these, so that at length, at the shoulders, the shirt contains virtually nothing of the original fabric and a man . . . wears in his work on the power of his shoulders a fabric as intricate and fragile, and as deeply in honor of the reigning sun, as the feather mantle of a Toltec prince...
...publisher of the Akron Beacon-Journal (Independent) and the Miami Herald (Democratic): "From time to time the Free Press proposes to speak quite as vigorously about the shortcomings in our national defense policies as does Lord Beaverbrook in his London Daily Express. This is no time to use a feather duster when a club may be needed...