Word: giddier
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...nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony and laid...
Next day, at the auction, the urge to splurge was even giddier. Reason: no ceiling prices on used machinery. A 1938 McCormick-Deering tractor, which cost $1,300, was knocked down at $2,100. A Cockshutt tractor ($1,341 new) went for $1,775. Twelve-year-old Olivers ($1,740 new) brought $1,875. One farmer got one for $1,800, sold it a moment later to an unsuccessful bidder for $1,900, thought the deal over, bought it back for $2,000. Another farmer, who had sold Houston one of his own used machines, liked the new paint...
...ablest jazz pianist in the British royal family is H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, known in the giddier portions of Mayfair as "P. G." (Prince George). In solemn mood Pianist "P. G." went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with...