Word: ostrichism
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...what might or might not have been an 18th century camel. Another girl came as a white rabbit, with neither explanation nor apology. Host Cuevas himself received his guests as a timeless "God of Nature" in cloth of gold, a scarlet cape and a headdress of gilded grapes and ostrich plumes in the full beam of a glaring spotlight. "I can't see you; oh, this light is terrible," he cried to one couple as his own limelight blinded him. "You look completely black to me." The couple whispered an explanation : they were dressed in skintight black. Guest after...
...Madrid bullfight, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, getting her first taste of a real Spanish corrida, was carried away by the excitement of it all when the torero, Chicuelo, toured the arena and was showered by a complimentary cascade of hats, cigars and flowers. Hedda whipped off her own ostrich-feather, Parisian cartwheel hat (by Jacques Path) and skimmed it into the bull ring. "I know I threw away a $100 hat," she said, "but I certainly got more than one thousand dollars worth of thrills...
...ostrich-plumed hat of the early '30s, usually worn at a rakish angle, which almost completely...
...great esteem, and imparted to it the dignity of his own character. He refused to shake hands during his eight years in the office-he felt that such a gesture of familiarity was beneath the presidency-and always bowed instead. He dressed richly in velvet, wore hats plumed with ostrich feathers, rode in a six-horse coach with liveried lackeys and outriders, felt himself the equal of any king on earth, but always thought of himself as the "Most Obed. Hble Serv.t" of the U.S. people, who, decade after decade, have borne the stamp of his character...
...another reminder of the fact that life today is a tough proposition and any ostrich policy deserves exposure. It is easy to grow accustomed to the existence of Communism and hope piously for a change in the party line, but the Protestants of East Germany are facing increasing persecution, and they cannot philosophize in comfort . . . Thank God for a Christian church that will stand for truth and righteousness when other organizations, educational, political, and fraternal, have surrendered to the enemy...