Word: ostrich
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When he needed money for bar tips, cattle or a new pair of ostrich cowboy boots, Wiggins could simply draw out funds against the account...
...about nine-tenths beaten to a frazzle. But he hangs in there, functioning on pride and coffee. He sells a porcupine for $100, which is about $98.75 more than any porcupine that can't play God Bless America on the musical goose-horns is worth. He sells an ostrich egg for $17, a slink of ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only a few weeks old, goes for $450. "Dime...
...long as the Gowers remain content to gallivant around Baltimore in their peculiar fashion, they don't harm anyone. Morgan's wife has only to worry about where to get his ostrich feathers laundered. But Morgan's Passing develops an ugly side. Morgan's family realizes that their actions have no basis in reason. They give up trying to influence or even approach one another. The family, and by Tyler's analogy, all human beings, withdraw into hollow conversation, a Chekhovian void where people talk over each other's shoulders and pay less attention to their friends than to their...
...self-contained community than a hospital. Though much has changed since the night in 1894 when a group of crafty sisters of charity used a barge to smuggle seven leprosy patients up river from New Orleans while telling suspicious residents of the nearby town they planned to establish an ostrich farm on the abandoned Indian Camp Plantation grounds, Carville still contains enough of a "leper colony" aura to frighten the most stoic newcomer...
...Pritchett was sent off to learn the leather business. By 1921 he was an expatriate, earning a slender living selling photography supplies, ostrich feathers and shellac in Paris. It was the Paris of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, but Pritchett knew little of it. He recalls a winter evening in 1922 when he watched people walking up the Boulevard du Montparnasse carrying a large blue-covered volume. It was the first edition of Joyce's Ulysses, an author Pritchett had not heard...