Word: ostrichism
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Biggest thrill to the Juan Tomas children, however, was not Albuquerque's civilization but the wonders of nature. They insisted on seeing the zoo twice, were most awed by the monkeys and lions. Said a sparkling-eyed 5-year-old, looking at the ostrich: "Oh, what a big chicken...
First back-crack to the doctrinal report came from the Church Association, an Evangelical (low Church) Anglican group, whose secretary said: "The commission has incubated a report which is merely an addled ostrich egg. . . . According to the commission, you can think what you like and still be a Christian...
...them. In a merciless four-year war for supremacy in the provinces, fought paper by paper, Lord Camrose trounced beefy Lord Rothermere, whose publications are often used as personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes 21 newspapers and more than 100 periodicals, which he divided last winter with his brother, Lord Kemsley, who took the Daily Sketch, Sunday Times (no connection with the Times), several provincial and Scottish papers...
Complaint: While repairing a truck on Mr. Hearst's San Simeon ranch, a "vicious, wild and dangerous ostrich" did knock down Mr. Zelda, stamp upon and trample him so that he was unconscious for three hours and suffered from brain concussion, traumatic hernia, nervous shock...
...George, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and 24 other knights-youngest, the Duke of Norfolk; oldest, the Duke of Portland; newest, Earl Baldwin-assembled in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle. Each wore a mantle of dark blue velvet with a crimson hood, a black velvet hat with white ostrich plumes. The only members of the Order who did not wear a gold-encrusted dark-blue garter below the left knee were the two Queens. Instead they wore them on the left...