Word: ostrichism
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...Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo, an ostrich swallowed an orange stuffed with razor blades and safety pins, died. A 150-lb. Galapagos turtle died after being fed a 2-in. rubber band filled with carpet tacks...
...long it will be necessary to wait for the logical corollary of this trend--fewer lecture courses, accompanied by vastly more than the present emphasis on lectures which stimulate as well as instruct. But when prosperity is once more upon us--when the Blue Eagle's head is hidden, ostrich-like, in the sand, when Hour Exams have been abolished in reality and not only in theory--Harvard must, if only to pass it on to the next generation, revive the long lost art of lecturing...
...bottoms and overall cooling two or three times every 24 hours. Hatchings in his imitative incubator averaged 78% as against 55% obtained on the average in Russia in uniform-temperature incubators. Last week it was reported that Zoologist Meshcheryakov had hat bed every one of a clutch of ostrich eggs, a feat rarely accomplished even by a mother ostrich...
...chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally Rand...
...highly irregular. The best is almost worthy of that of his model and hero, the late great Paul Gustave Doré. Among the better Hell drawings is one entitled "Clock Conscious." Two other Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump, gulping fistfuls of men from a great bowl ; "Trying to End it All," a pale and flabby Hellion, who has just slashed ineffectively at his nude paunch with a dagger...