Word: ostrichized
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Grandfather's oldest son was another Henry-redheaded "Harry," who taught at Iowa State Agricultural College and became Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge. Harry's wife, interested in genealogy, dug up the Wallace family coat of arms. It displayed an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe. The motto: Sperandum est (free translation: Somewhere, the sun is shining...
Betty herself wore pink. Her dress was studded with sequins; her hat was large and sprouted six ostrich plumes. A young gallant brought his mother over to see her. "I've always wanted to meet you," said the young gallant's mother. "My father, who was Barney Baruch's younger brother, was madly in love with you when you were on the stage." Piped young Talbot: "That's nothing. My grandfather had a crush on you, too." Replied Betty: "I remember him well. He and I were having a beer at Delmonico's the night...
...other side of the fence is the Navy. The sailors play a rough and ready game with the accent on checking and power plays and last year's aggregation dropped a 15-1 game to them. A win over either Maryland or Navy would be an ostrich plume in Maddux...
Campaigning under the slogan, "Don't Be an Ostrich, Get Your Head out of the Sand," the group picked up 147 names in Dunster Thursday evening, returning after a fracas Wednesday with members of the Wallace committee who were offering an anti-UMT scroll...
...idea was that some sort of marriage course for Radcliffe girls should be instituted in the fall term. Yale has already stopped into the twentieth century and acknowledged the existence of sex. If Radcliffe makes the same move unilaterally, Harvard will become something of a lone puritanical ostrich, with its head buried in the past. Call it "Marriage," as the Radcliffe Student Council does, or call it "Sex Hygiene," as is the usual custom, the fact should be faced that a course dealing with sex ought to have a niche in the catalogue of courses. It is possible, some will...