Word: ostrichized
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Despite the ostrich-like attitude which College officials have sometimes ludicrously assumed on the matter of tutoring bureau outlines, there is, to the undergraduate, nothing morally reprehensible in the practice of using notes which are not his own. Borrowed or purchased notes are regarded as a perfectly legitimate aid, not to night-before cramming, but to methodical review. The only reason why more men do not use tutoring bureau outlines is that they are so inadequate and inaccurate as to be well-nigh useless...
Sitting Pretty contains two good songs ("Good Morning. Glory," ''Did You Ever See a Dream Walking"), a dance routine with ostrich feathers and an air of total irresponsibility which often makes it definitely funny...
...fear there is and once more high finance exhibits its colossal stupidity and ostrich-like behavior when faced with a new situation. Whether the failure of investment to keep pace with the general upswing has been due to calculated sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...
...election day. One can do no more than say that this has never been the case in the past. Reform candidates have always been drawn, and with great force, to one or to the other of the mammoth stools which our party system has erected. Chicago has tried the ostrich device of making municipal elections non-partisan, but in this case the old lines have undergone only a metaphysical submersion. Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world...
Probably no mayoralty contest in the United States has ever aroused more furor than the LaGuardia-McKee-Tammany struggle in the home of Broadway. From Times Square to the Pacific it is continuous front-page copy. But New York is not the only ostrich in the zoo. Boston, too, is witnessing one of the fiercest knock-down drag-outs of its history. And in both cases the reason for the excitement is exactly the same. A really able man, one who is neither crook nor incompetent, has a betting chance to be elected...