Word: feathering
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...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...
...Yorker cartoonist; and Marilyn Matthews Miller, 53, a Long Island patron of animal welfare groups; both for the third time; in Water Mill, N.Y. For the wedding, in a dog cemetery on the grounds of her estate, the bride wore a black velvet dress and carried a black feather fan. Said she: "He thought it would be nice and cheerful...
...indefatigable worker, a lover of mischief and pranks, quirky, increasingly aloof, mercurial, yet often remarkably generous and warm. In Viva Picasso, a book to be published by Viking next fall, Duncan describes how, in the course of preparing some Picasso canvases for photography, he took a swipe with a feather duster at a 1938 self-portrait-and smudged a part of the canvas. Writes Duncan: "I spent the whole morning dabbing with spit-moistened Kleenex trying to reduce the damage, to clean away the smudges." By lunchtime, the hour at which Picasso usually got out of bed, Duncan, his face...