Word: ostrichism
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...This ostrich-like ibis, whose local villainies...
Though you tried to collect a large sum, Sum! sum! Your ostrich, named Benny, Is not worth a penny...
...humor, ornithologically considered, consists largely in giving somebody the bird: cuckoo, mocking-bird or pompous ostrich. Funnyman Thurber's is half-ostrich, half-cuckoo; Funnyman Gibbs's is all mocking-bird...
Wrote His Grace the Duke of Portland, twice Master of the Horse under Queen Victoria: "The thing is a stargazing, ewe-necked thoroughbred." British Horseman G. G. Cross gave it as his opinion that it was "a cross between a giraffe and a four-legged ostrich." Loudest objector was Lieut-Colonel Maxwell Fielding McTaggart, author of numerous books on equitation, who for the past three years has been carrying on a bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week...
...London. Other speakers and a formal resolution politely denounced the recent White House Conference on Child Health & Protection (TIME, Dec. 1) for not mentioning birth control at all. Dr. Ira Solomon Wile of Manhattan called the White House Conference "a total, a complete and excellently devised demonstration of an ostrich policy. This is unjust to the ostrich, however, as it does not bury its head quite so deeply." Otherwise the birth controllers were placid. They reiterated an old boast that their movement has been endorsed by various sectional conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis...