Word: peacock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud as a peacock of this last prize display, Tom Connally sent the press gallery a note. It read...
...Southern Cross to Peru, where he was received as a king. He financed an archeological expedition, gave Peru a million-acre public park, named for the donor, who felt warmly in his heart that Peru would not soon forget the name of Wenner-Gren. He was proud as a peacock when the University of Cuzco gave him an honorary doctorate, and the soft-footed servants who now minister to him and his wife in Mexico have been trained to call him "Doctor...
...Nose. In Columbus, Ga., R. P. Peacock sat down to watch a ball game, declared to a companion: "I hope no one scores until the last half of the ninth. Then I hope we get a home run." He got his wish...
...question that Detroit's methods are different; there is a question of how flexible they may prove if design changes come too thick & fast. Detroit's biggest single venture into aircraft-the titanic Ford plant at Willow Run-has yet to show its stuff. Last week peacock-proud Charlie Sorensen showed newsmen the first B-24-E bomber off Willow Run's half-mile long assembly lines, predicted a ship an hour by late summer. Said he: "[This plant] is an invitation for Hitler to commit suicide...
...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...