Word: flamingo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JEHOVAH'S DAY - Mary Borden - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) A competent novelist, Mary Borden has set in frameworks of nice prose such swift tumultuous stories as Jane, Our Stranger and Flamingo. But none of her past work presaged the ambitious conception, the flights of rhetoric displayed in her present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes...
Could dishonor a flamingo...
...annoyed by the weight of his jockey, Largo, one of the horses entered in the Grand Prix, last week, cantered wildly. The crowd of gentlemen in tall grey hats and ladies in wide flat hats stared and murmured. They were afraid Largo's antics would unnerve the favorite Flamingo. With Largo off the course, the other horses started, rounded the curve of the turf in the sunshine with Croix de Guerre, owned by Ogden Mills (father of the U. S. Under Secretary of the Treasury) carrying Jockey Esling and the numeral 13, beating Baron...
...stands in the track watching them struggle up wearily and slowly. When the horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front with Ranjit Singh close to him; then came Port Hole and Royal Minstrel and Felstead and Sunny Trace ridden by Gordon Richards, England's premier jockey. They left the level and ran wildly downhill toward the hairpin turn called Tattenham Corner. No horse has a chance unless...
Many birds settle down to a drab existence in captivity although in excellent health. The flamingo gradually loses its brilliant red color, turns an ugly grey...