Word: ostrichized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another flurry was caused by word from impressionable young reporters in Washington that General Pershing, military representative, would attend the Coronation in a gaudy $600 uniform of his own designing, consisting of an ostrich-plumed "fore & aft" hat, a frock coat embroidered with oak leaves, epaulets, brass buttons and a buff silk sash. Infuriated, General Pershing stomped up the gangway of the President Harding without ever explaining clearly to reporters that his Coronation costume was no flight of fancy but the regulation full-dress uniform of a General in the U. S. Army. Grinned Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval representative...
...like an orange going down an ostrich's neck. Fortnight ago it was up at Wheeling, Portsmouth, Cincinnati. Last week it moved slowly down through Louisville and Evansville to Cairo. But the Ohio River, unlike an ostrich's neck, remained swollen after the orange had passed, for floods recede slowly...
Clad in a skirt of pink ostrich feathers, orchid bodice, and silver shoulder straps, Toe-Dancer Sarah Churchill, daughter of British Tory Winston Churchill, made her debut in Boston in four-a-day vaudeville with Comedian Vic Oliver, to whom she is reported engaged (TIME, Sept. 28). Insisted she: "I'm here for work and not for love." Said he: "I don't dance...
...turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported his 205 Ib. wabbled like...
Balfour & Co. glowed with pride as their "Richlin Ostrich Feathers" elicited from His Majesty: "I want to deny the rumor that I have a prejudice against ostrich feathers...