Word: ostrichism
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...news of Pearl Harbor. Now the job of being a constant goad on production was added to Hopkins' functions. He listened to the bustling airmen, and agreed without batting an eye that the U.S. could meet their seemingly fantastic wants. It was he who always put the ostrich egg in the hen coop, who always raised the sights over the last highest production estimate. In 1941, shown the estimated merchant-ship construction for the year, he blandly doubled the figure. At year's end, the total construction was even higher...
...jackets and long dresses. Fifth Avenue seethed: Adrian's plaid taffeta with a bustle back was the sensation of Bonwit Teller's fashion show titled "I'm Dressing for my Darling"; Saks offered a beaded wool evening cloak ($139); the Tailored Woman recommended a shower of ostrich plumes on violet crepe. Lord & Taylor bought full-page ads, burbled: "Tonight-fabulous word once more. Now that we're dressing for it . . . once more." In San Francisco, Columnist Lucius Beebe applauded "the prevalence of opera hats and white ties" in the cream-&-gold opera house, a "lavish frame...
...bearing and behavior, small (125 lbs.), stooped Mosby resembled a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Superman. Against the enemy his unvarying rule was to do what was least expected of him. When he rode, his cape "was turned back always in a flow of scarlet. A curling ostrich plume extended over his shoulder from a gray felt hat, and at each side hung a large Colt revolver, suspended in holsters well studded with brass." He was always kind to women & children...
...turned out to be. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau had underestimated by some $2,963,000,000 the actual Treasury receipts of $44,149,000,000. He had overestimated by some $2,207,000,000 actual expenditures of $93,744,000,000. Further, the Treasury ended up the year with an ostrich-sized nest egg of $19,406,000,000-enough to run the war for two and a half months...
...Marquess of Hartington repaired to the Chelsea Registry Office, accompanied by his best man, the Duke of Rutland. Both wore Guards' uniforms and snug Sam Brownes. Fifteen minutes later Kathleen Kennedy arrived in delphinium pink suede crepe, a short mink jacket and a little hat of pink & blue ostrich feathers. Lieut. Joseph Kennedy Jr., U.S.N.R., came to give his sister away...