Word: ostrichized
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...nags and one mule. In favor hats (with holes for their ears), looking as giddy as tipsy old maids on New Year's Eve, the horses munched carrots and greens, then champed into a heavily iced birthday cake. Afterward Anna was awarded a special hat-lavender with an ostrich feather-as the most glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service, Anna, being an artist, was disqualified. The award (a leather feed bag) went to Tootsie, who has pulled a pickle wagon through The Bronx for 15 years. "All work and no play," says...
That WPA has an influence on politics, only a congenital ostrich would deny. Whether it plays politics is the issue. Last week the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee passed two solemn judgments. It ruled that: 1) the ultimate author of WPA benefits, Franklin Roosevelt, when as Head of the Democratic Party he addresses the whole country (as he did in a heart-to-heart radio talk fortnight ago) is above criticism in appealing for votes; 2) Aubrey Williams, Deputy WPAdministrator was not above criticism in his appeal last fortnight to the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) to ''keep your...
...view, their professional instead of artistic preoccupation, their lack of a theory on the value of the Classics for which one must blame the department. Some of the techniques now in use can also be criticized. A course for beginners in Latin, the need for which has been neglected, ostrich-fashion, should be given. The department must face the unpleasant fact that, partly by vigorously preserving the Classical tradition, the Division must itself assume the burden of elementary instruction. The fact that there are more students this year in Greek, where such a course is given, than there...
...press conference, apropos of the LIFE pictures: "I never think honest things are bad. I think that suggestive things which do not deal honestly with a subject are much more harmful." She told how a small boy she knew had been merely bored by the pictures, had remarked: "The ostrich in school had a much harder time laying...
...Morover, they add finishing touches to the vaudeville numbers, and, except when they enter the vocal realm, go over with a resounding bang. When the "sweetest music this side of heaven" fades away, the stage is taken over by Donald Duck, who has a hilarious time with an omniverous ostrich, and by William Powell and Annabella, who in spite of the fantastic plot of "The Baroness and the Butler," also succeed in having a jolly time. If all programs were as good as this, movie reviewing would be uninterrupted bliss...