Word: ostrichism
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...evidently there is no escaping American bureaucratese. The Peking Review's advertisements for Flyin-Pigeon bicycles and Ostrich brand ink both speak of "finalizing" orders...
...Legislature's education committee again supported the bill. Rep. Gerard F. Doherty (D-Charlestown), House chairman of the committee, said those who opposed the bill favored the course "of an ostrich with its head stuck in the sands of ignorance...
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...