Word: ostrichized
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...their laying season, domesticated hen ostriches lay one or two eggs a week. In Detroit's zoo one day last week, an ostrich named Queenie deposited two three-pound eggs within 30 minutes. Zoologists marveled, pronounced binovulation a condition exceedingly rare in ostriches. Said Zookeeper John W. Ireland: "I never heard of such a thing...
...city on it. He broke 23 eggs before he completed "Strasbourg." Sometimes the shells gave way after he had drilled 1,200 or 1,500 holes, but Nephtalie Kahn never lost his temper. In all he has embroidered 26 eggs. Some of his better known pieces are the ostrich series, showing a butterfly, the salamander of Francois I. and a Gallic cock on which he employed 214 different colors of silk. His masterpiece is a duck egg called "Rouen" which bears the arms of the city. It contains 5,342 holes, some of them only 1/10 millimeter apart. It took...
...anniversary of his coronation last week the Holy Father, wearing his triple crown, was borne into St. Peter's on his sedia gestatoria. Surrounded by Swiss Guards, Noble Guards, Palatine Guards, flabelli bearers (with ostrich fans) he begged all the world to pray God for peace. Among his 35,000 listeners in St Peter's were Signora Rachele Mussolini, and a man who ran up to the sedia gestatoria, threw a paper in the Pope's lap, crying "I want grace! I want grace!" Later Pius XI inquired about the poor fellow, learned he was unemployed, ordered that everything possible...
Married. Prince Monolulu of Africa, turf tipster; and a Miss Nellie Amelia Adkind, white woman; in London. Prince Monolulu wore his royal regalia, including hat embellished with three two-foot ostrich plumes, embroidered sash, short jacket on which were traced five symbolic horseshoes...
...Best ostrich territory is the Cape of Good Hope. In 1925 there were 1,000,000 birds being grown there; now there are only about 25,000. (This of course does not include the strong-legged, ferocious wild ostrich often found herding with zebras and antelopes.) There are also ostrich farms in Egypt. Algeria, the French Riviera and the U. S. Largest U. S. farms (Jacksonville, Los Angeles) are run chiefly for tourists. One near Los Angeles used to buy plumes in Manhattan, paste them onto the birds' tails, sell them at 50? each, freshly clipped. Biggest Cape...