Word: owl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...members of the Owl Club and their punches threw bowling pins at each other, ripped up a bus, and then turned on the Owl Club itself during their Final Dinner of the punching season on Sunday night...
With that, The Owl and the Pussycat sets out on a sea of hysteria, and their cramped tub somehow manages to stay afloat. Felix is the owl, a pedantic would-be writer who works in a Fifth Avenue bookstore. Doris is the pussycat, a randy stray from New York's back alleys who has been in two television commercials, a movie entitled Cycle Sluts, and countless beds. By the time she gets through screaming at Felix, they are both evicted-Felix wearing a skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length...
...those half-glasses of his and, in his best owl-like manner, listed the know facts of the bombing. He spoke from notes and smiled frequently as he did so. Like Mr. Bowie, he was most ingratiating and was perfectly willing to take the reporters' questions...
...fluoroscope screen tells his patient, "Thier is something very wrong going on inside of you." Other drawings submitted by the contestants, whose ages ranged from six to ten, included several artistically eloquent tributes to the harried H.I.P. pediatricians. One child portrayed her doctor as a benevolent and obviously wise owl. Another lovingly sketched the figure of a dignified doctor capped with a rakish halo...
Goodman recalls that on the day Franklin Roosevelt died he was studying in the Lowell House library, which overlooks the Owl Club garden. The Owl Club, he says, threw a party that afternoon to celebrate FDR's death...