Word: ostrichized
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...Ostrich...
...strong iron cage behind a wire fence in Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, lived George Washington, male ostrich. He was not friendly. Keepers knew that his bleak eye, long nose and haughty air of breeding had made him many an enemy, but they believed that he was safe. The cage and fence, they thought, would keep scornful George from violence. One morning last week they found him dead. Dreadful marks seamed his long throat, marks that made clear that the naked hands of a man had strangled him. In the cage, near his huddled body, they found a man's overcoat...
...days later police discovered and took into custody one William C. Mclntyre, 28, upon whose forehead yawned a gash. Mr. Mclntyre identified the ostrich-trampled overcoat as his, acknowledged that he had been drinking, dimly remembered having lately taken a beating from some one, was astonished, mortified...
...Charlot's Revue", and if that isn't enough praise we might add that he is Cockney and filled with a Cockney's natural talent. We have headed this column with a line from one of his little songs which describes the abilities of the man and the ostrich and points out that our great politicians would have a hard time in doing as well. Mr. Lupino is not of the wisecracking, smut-slinging school. All his laughs depend on sound principles of burlesque and a certain ridiculous irresponsibility that makes him seem at all times spontaneous. Possibly...
...America takes her places with 48 other nations in maintaining an institution which has proved itself indispensable to international society. We have not been frightened by the ogre of the League of Nations. We have not been hamstrung by the isolationists. We have not been converted to an ostrich policy. We are saying to 48 other peoples that we approve what they have done, that we welcome their success, and that we want to share in the product of their effort...