Word: feathering
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...head, and seating him, haughtily tailored, in some famed cabaret, with a blurb for the show tattooed upon his naked poll. Last week a bouillon company evolved a sleight even more alarming. An army of ragged sandwich men was sent into the streets, armed with bundles of red feathers upon which the name of the product was printed in black. Each feather had a hook. The sandwich men hooked them to the backs of passersby...
...wastrel hookers did more than they were paid for. Having hooked a feather into the tail of a famed French lawyer, one of them capered at his side, shouting: "Ya been in a henhouse, ya been in a hen-house." The barrister, embarrassed perhaps by a guilty conscience, pretended to share their mirth...
...that is unobtainable, to secure such high duties as will strengthen it by increasing its revenue and enabling it to reduce internal taxes. If the Chinese can induce the conference to make preparations for the abolition of extraterritoriality (special privileges for foreigners resident in China) - that would be another feather...
Perhaps, the same day of the deposit of ratifications, he returned home and told his little girl, Maimi, and his two little boys, Dedie and Szeming, all about what was, after all, a considerable diplomatic feather...
...Queen had a heliotrope ostrich feather...