Word: peacock
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...ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts (tents) on the plain, capped themselves with full-dress peacock plumes and crowded into the council chamber. There under a portrait of the Panchen Lama sat Prince Teh Wang who for months has been trying to found a Pan-Mongolian self-rule movement. Despite their traditional suspicions of one another, Prince Teh Wang last week herded the princes into agreement...
Flabella Sirs: TIME was correct in stating "ostrich-plumed flabella" in its account of the procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi as opposed to accuracy- loving Fraser Nairn who insists that they were peacock fans. Recent newsreels of the event prove that. Perhaps Mrs. Drexel's peacock-feathered flabella have been retired. However, her gift to the pontiffs was conspicuously absent on this occasion. JOHN E. P. MclLVAINE Minneapolis, Minn...
...peseta sank to a new low and a new horde overran Mallorca: U. S. hard-drinkers who wanted to live like characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway. They set up their own bars in Mallorca's famed caves. They started a fad of imitating a peacock's screech, slept all day, screeched like peacocks all night. Tourist prices began to skid upward. Travel publicity brought new thousands of law-abiding U. S. tourists, many of whom stayed to open their own shops, restaurants, travel bureaus and pensions...
...interest of accuracy, these flabella are not ostrich plumes but are peacock feathers and were presented to the Popes by an American, Mrs. Joseph W. Drexel of Philadelphia, of the famous banking family of that name...
...Balbo has the vanity of a peacock, no peacock has the ability or courage of a Balbo. And if it be true that there are Italians who secretly hope that Balbo will meet disaster, it is also true that Balbo gives them every opportunity to get their wish...