Word: peacock
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...they faced a second ordeal. At the far end of Peacock Alley, the agonized wail of bagpipes announced the arrival of four kilted veterans, bearing aloft a haggis, "great chieftain o' the puddin' race." Behind them, a kilted soldier carried a sheathed dirk at the salute, closely followed by a proud bearer holding on high a bottle of King's Ransom Scotch whiskey...
...reporters who visited the hotel last week found that it had stood up remarkably well. Some 400 incendiaries had gutted the south wing, burning out 150 bedrooms. Also destroyed was the Imperial's fancy Peacock Hall. The rest of the building was rubble-littered and damaged but usable, and already put to housing U.S. brass hats. Outside, red and white lilies bloomed in the pool...
...literary allusion that no Frenchman applied to the bluff of a weak France trying to carry out a strong-arm foreign policy was a line from Edmond Rostand's Chantecler: "Quand le paon n'est pas là, le dindon fait la roue-When the peacock is away, the turkey spreads his tail...
...reserve British regard Patton's elan and peacock-strutting brilliance as "great style," even compare him with his colorful antithesis-cautious Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. The French, Dutch, Belgians regard Patton with vast confidence. Even the Germans help to glorify him. Some enemy officers & men consider it more honorable to have had to surrender to "Bloody" Patton's Third Army...
...display its virtuosity, the orchestra ig nored the critics, kept a shrewd eye on the cash customers in selecting its program: Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony, Fernandez' Batuque, Griffes' White Peacock, Strauss's Dance of the Seven Veils...