Word: ostrichism
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...publicity stunt, Florida's Governor Fuller Warren carefully wrapped a native product, worth $35 in fancy Manhattan restaurants, and sent it off to New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams. The gift: an ostrich...
...thrifty person, set about selling his trained moose. After considerable dealings with various prospective purchasers, he sold the animal to a small travelling circus where, it is reported, it was used to run sprint trials (on a straight course) against another member of the circus case, a large trained ostrich. It is further reported that the moose could beat the ostrich nine times...
...kill a proposal to move the annual meeting to Manhattan. Olds's action roused Stockholder Wilma Soss (five shares), who recently founded the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Business, Inc. Mrs. Soss had come to the meeting dressed in a 1901 costume with mutton-chop sleeves and ostrich-plumed hat. As Chairman Olds and President Benjamin F. Fairless listened in polite boredom, Stockholder Soss sassed them. Her costume, she said, was appropriate for a management "50 years behind the times in stockholder relations...
...moas found ranged from the 12-ft.-tall Dinornis maximus down to the ostrich-sized Euryapteryx. Big & little, they apparently wandered into the swamp while feeding. Their enormous feet were fine defensive weapons (the far smaller South American rheas have been known to kick a mule to death), but were no good for bogtrotting. As they sank, the birds kicked and struggled; skeletons have been found with one leg raised as though in a last, despairing kick...
...them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...