Word: gartered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note that rubber garter snakes did not keep pigeons away from the courthouse ledges in West Palm Beach [TIME, July.10...
...Pigeons are shy of any moving object. If the rubber garter snakes had wriggled, the pigeons would not have come near them. An inflated paper sack tied where the breeze can move it will keep the pigeons away...
Well, did the rubber garter snakes (TIME, June 12) keep the pigeons away from the West Palm Beach courthouse ledges...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., county officials, harried by the courthouse pigeons, pondered, decided to spend $5.76 for 36 rubber garter snakes to be placed on the ledge where the pigeons gather...
...busy week for Britain's royal family. Queen Mary ventured forth to the theater for the first time this year and King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visited Stratford-on-Avon for the Shakespeare birthday celebrations. Backstage, the King noticed that the Order of the Garter had been improperly laid out on Actor Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh...