Word: ostrichized
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...Pope, apparently kneeling but actually sitting at a priedieu on a platform borne by twelve husky men. Pius XI bore aloft a gem-encrusted monstrance containing the Host.* Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella. Mace-bearers, torchbearers. Noble Guards and Swiss Guards walked at his side. The crowd cheered. Then 18 cardinals and 6,000 priests and ordinaries fell into line, bearing lighted candles. The Pope in the rear, they marched slowly through the evening shadows and the Bernini colonnade...
...meet to discuss and disagree on navy reductions. What hope for peace while a revengeful Germany, a belligerent Italy, a suspicious France, an aggressive Japan, and a hated Russia prepare for conflict? The world outlook is certainly dark Yet, gloomy as it is, we cannot evade it by such ostrich-like attitudes as President Hoover's. There is no better prelude to war than a false sense of security. If there is any "profound hope for the future," it will never be realized until we can face the international situation more realistically than this...
...Orleans newspapers for days & days did not carry a line on the Union Indemnity crash after their first brief inside-page stories. When they received Washington dispatches on Congressman Fish's charges last week they killed them, ostrich-wise, at President Hecht's urgent request. Of course the news went out to newspapers in the North. Hibernia Bank & Trust, doing a nation-wide business, began to suffer heavy out-of-town withdrawals, and the news seeped through New Orleans' financial district. President Hecht wired complete refutation of the charges and Congressman Fish offered to review the facts...
...actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus' enclosure. With a snort of rage, Big Nick charged his prostrate keeper, trampled...
Previously M. Sauvant had compared the construction of his pilot seat to the position of a hen's egg contained within an ostrich egg. If the ostrich egg were dropped and smashed, he said, the hen's egg would remain intact. He once dropped a sheep and six eggs safely from 500 feet in a model of his ship (TIME, Dec. 14). Several times he tried to make the test himself but could not elude police until last week. Before undertaking his cliff dive he let a motor truck ram Amour with himself inside...