Word: ostrichized
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Seven long, lean years have depressed the U. S. feather industry. So low did prices sink that even ostrich feathers, an aristocrat of the group, were being stuffed into pillows and mattresses. During the last few months, however, a great revival has been started by the feather-capped Empress Eugenie hats (TIME, Aug. 3). Raw ostrich which recently brought $15 a pound last week fetched $50 to $60. Lesser feathers showed equally heartening gains, except for the duck division. So overproduced are duck feathers that last week a Long Island dealer in them asked the State Department if a sale...
...traffic last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera, in California, Egypt and Algeria, bemoaning the seven lean years since hats were last plumed, hoped the feathers in Paris would prove more than a whim...
...Waistlines even higher and smaller, causing corsetmen to take heart along with ostrich farmers...
...Debt payments from the Allies. The Hoover moratorium proposal was the first time a Republican President had ever admitted a connection between these two great items of international finance as a matter of practical economy. Trying to reconcile party policy and practical necessity, he offered this neat but ostrich-like explanation...
...American Revolution yesterday, when President Hoover refused both of them his calling card. The refusal of the President to address the D. A. R. Congress this year, interpreted by the Press as being significant of something a little more than mere social "ennui", brings out into sharp relief the ostrich-like perversity with which that organization has in the past supported every unenlightened policy that could possibly be miscalled Americanism. The naval policies which contributed to the failure of the 1927 Geneva Conference, Intervention in Central America, abhorrence of the World Court--for these the Daughters are strong...