Word: ostrichized
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Will Ye No Come Back? "We work hard and we play hard," explained a Royal Marine. Between shows and rehearsals, there are boots to black, pith helmets to repaint, ostrich feathers and bearskins to comb. It is Silvo-Polish and elbow grease that keep the buttons blinding bright, treacle that caulks the bagpipe bags and keeps them from cracking. The shows are work too. One of the Scots Guards pipers blew so hard one night he had to be hospitalized with a suspected hernia, but gamely returned to action the next day's matinee-fitted out in a truss...
...from below. A week later they showed up at the exclusive dinner given by the old-guard Nine O'Clockers of New York, Andy dressed in his usual black, bespotted denim work pants and Edie in a black crepe evening gown with shoulder-length white gloves, topped with ostrich feathers...
...Next time you come to Washington, call me," murmured the impeccable Madame Alphand. "I'd love to show you the embassy." "That's it," cried Carroll ecstatically, as she spied a Harlow-type Lanvin white gown dripping with ostrich feathers...
Fabiani used grey ostrich plumes to match his grey chiffon gown. Valentino stitched them all over his palazzo pajamas, tickled the tops of dresses with them, and in a crazy burst, banded Dalmatian-spotted coats with wide ruchings of ostrich...
...Bois de Boulogne. A bit! Mme. Rochas herself wore $250,000 worth of diamonds to decorate her egret-plumed Guy Laroche gown. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Begum Aga Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and all the other jet-set guests showed up in ascots, ostrich feathers and grey top hats. "There was not an egret plume or a false moustache to be had in Paris that evening," purred Mme. Rochas happily. Celebrating a sort of Eliza Doolittle Night in La Grande Cascade Restaurant in the Bois, the glittering Edwardians could have danced all night...