Word: ostrichism
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...strength of the new Ministry's liberalization, Paris papers went to town on the Allies' subject-of-the-week: What About Russia? In striking contrast to the ostrich-like actions of the British Press, the Liberal L'Oeuvre debated openly with Rightist papers whether France should break with "Germany's friend" the Soviet Union while they were at the same time urging closer ties with "Germany's friend" Fascist Italy. It looked to L'Oeuvre as though the French Rightists were picking their foreign friends and foes along suspiciously ideological lines. Socialist ex-Premier...
...first Lucas was wild and mischievous, and Farmer Smith had to thrash him repeatedly for "dirty animal habits in and about the house." As a wild boy, he had eaten crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. He continued to prefer this sort of food to a civilized diet, once devoured 89 prickly pears at a sitting. But he became gradually civilized as he learned to speak and understand English. He showed himself polite, obedient, fond of children, a devoted nurse. In the fields he was a prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard...
...abated. Even versatile Gene Towne is hard put to it to make the uneventful life of Eden entertaining for 93 minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...
...doubt a flood of letters protesting your selection will come to you, sent by D.A.R.'s, fearful divines, sabled, twittering, triple-chinned dowagers, the ostrich-minded city council of Cambridge, Mass., and similar groups of in-the-closet-and-under-the-bed-peepers who believe that enforced ignorance and a moratorium on thinking is "Americanism...
...away from their seabound mainland. "The Atlantic and the Pacific are of tremendous value to our defensive situation, but they are not impassable," observed George Marshall in a piece published last week. In such impassable equivocations, he and the Navy's "Betty" Stark must deal. Otherwise that peaceful ostrich, the U. S. Citizenry, might suspect that its hired fighting men are doing their bounden duty by preparing to fight anywhere on earth...