Word: ostrichized
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...cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold star, and adorned with a curling ostrich feather. ... He went conspicuous, all gold and glitter, in the front of great battles and in a hundred little cavalry fights which killed men just as dead as Gettysburg...
...stability equal to any in Europe. Their economic program is being carried out with an idealism and sacrifice of which the American people have no true concept. There are 156,000,000 people in Russia and to ignore their desires, wants and governmental stability is to act the foolish ostrich with its head in the sand...
Captain Roland Molyneux-Loyal to the Empire waistline, the captain-couturier is even more Napoleonic in attempting to revive the poke bonnet, trimmed with fur, ostrich feathers, cock plumes. Lounging pyjamas are voluminous, trailing like a dress in back, trousered in front...
What is wrong with Princeton sport? To those ostrich-like souls who deny that anything is wrong, we recommend, first, a casual glance at our recent athletic history and, second, a casual chat with most Princeton undergraduates, athletes, or coaches. If he wants a real torrent of language, let him consult a few of that off-maligned group-the Alumni...
...most of those letters that appear, to the really intelligent one of Peter S. Ellis. However, I can add but little to your courageous comment below the letters. It is short, sweet, correct. My vote of thanks here for one magazine not afflicted with a Reform-Complex nor the ostrich tactics of some individuals...