Word: goofer
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Mack: It was a small farm. It wasn't much. . . . Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it. We only raised goofer feathers. That's about...
...Moran: Goofer feathers...
Mack: Yes. . . . Didn't you ever sleep on goofer feathers? Oh, they are so-o-o soft...
...much has been heard of goofer feathers since the blackface team of Moran & Mack made them colloquially famous in the '20s. But as soon as a serious-minded manufacturer, Food Machinery Corp. of San Jose, Calif., can convert from war to peacetime products, the steady production of goofer feathers will become a main feature of a new U.S. industry. Food Machinery Corp. has designed and plans to market a peach de-fuzzing machine. The fuzz from the peaches, wafted by compressed air through a vent in the top of the machine, will become goofer feathers (to be thrown away...
...moment when troops with muffled drums and arms reversed gave full military honors to the body of the Rev. Robert Ford. Originally a witch doctor from Barbados, this personage arrived in Addis Ababa many years ago with an impressive manner and a suitcase full of goofer dust, rabbits' feet, crocodile bones and other potent nostrums, soon worked himself up to a post of great respectability and became "the Reverend." When not exorcising spirits, the Rev. Robert Ford played first saxophone in Emperor Haile Selassie's imperial band. He also gave banjo lessons and read horoscopes...