Word: ostriches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After manfully weathering a chichi London wedding as a satin-suited, ostrich-plumed Lord Fauntleroyish page, the Earl of Sunderland, 5, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and distant cousin to Sir Winston Churchill, foundered at the subsequent Savoy Hotel reception. His stiff upper lip curling, out came a petulant tongue, and with it, a noise less associated with Belgravia than The Bronx...
British High Commissioner Sir John Maud turned up for the ceremony in a gold-encrusted black uniform and a cockade hat with white ostrich plumes. Before the stucco High Court Building in the temporary capital of Lobatsi, the chiefs of the Bangwaketsi and Bakgatla tribes strutted in black trousers and scarlet tunics given to their grandfathers by Queen Victoria. All eyes were on Seretse as he swore to bear "true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors." His wife Ruth, whose blonde hair still fascinates the Bamangwato, was smartly turned out in a black silk suit...
Faun in Old Felt. In his 35 years in Africa, Ionides has lived for ten days on the partial contents of two ostrich eggs, been trampled by a charging elephant resulting in total deafness of one ear, climbed a 100-ft. tree, despite acrophobia, and with only one arm free, brought down a writhing mamba. He has been bitten by snakes half a dozen times, recorded his numbed sensations and degrees of pain with cool scientific exactitude, and never used antivenin. He has had an entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple...
...other submarines ranging from large ocean-going types down to seagoing patrol subs, medium-range subs and former German U-boats. In a foreword Editor Raymond Blackman observed that in "some quarters," it is still said that Russia's nuclear-powered submarines are not yet operational, but "this ostrich-like attitude can hardly be reconciled with the success which attended the building and operation of the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin...
...palette knife, and occasionally a brush. "I am interested in force," says he, "not esthetics." When the heavy, screaming colors look curdled enough, Appel appends a title, Head in the Mountains, Smiling Grasshopper, Personage with Parrot. Where is the head, the grasshopper, the parrot, or the woman and the ostrich? "For me," Appel once explained, "painting is destroying what I have done before...