Word: peacock
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...location: church, Lamont Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson, master of Winthrop House, found divinity in more than just the sermon while a first year Near Eastern Studies PhD candidate here at Harvard. Hanson clearly remembers "that a group of us went out to lunch after church at the Peacock Restaurant...I was standing at the top of the steps and Cynthia was at the bottom and I saw her and I remember thinking that I would like to get to know her better." He introduced himself but didn't see her again for a few months. Then he decided...
...about D.H. Lawrence is not its subject's violence or misogyny, but the insistent conflict of sexual identity which precludes the possibility of an easy or happy outcome. Lawrence's sexual ambiguities defy easy categorization. Maddox quotes several provocatively homoerotic passages, including the famous swimming scene from The White Peacock...
...Peacock in the Woods (1907), Thayer & Meryman. The brilliant peacock clearly deserves to be front and center but is obscured by bothersome, less deserving foliage...
Scud Stud and peacock make peace, as NBC talks of his return...
SWORD SWALLOWING MADE EASY (from a turn-of-the-century pamphlet): Use a peacock feather dipped in oil to tickle the throat, which helps you become familiar with the sensation. Swallow a rubber tube -- when the sword is swallowed, it will be encased in the tube. ((Make)) an imitation sword . . . out of licorice covered with tinfoil or aluminum paint; the licorice sword is swallowed and a real one produced from behind the back, giving "the impression the sword has passed entirely through you." Hire somebody to do it for you, as it may save you much annoyance...